It was only Christmas time when me and Darren sat here thinking how life is becoming easy for us again, since Lynette, our daughter got diagnosed with a brain tumour. She's been to hell and back and now, look at her....She is an inspiration to us all.

Straight after Christmas, Darren started to complain about his eye sight and short term memory. As things were getting worse he went to see a doctor, who advised him to go straight to A&E.

4 weeks of an absolute roller coaster, in and out of hospital, MRI, bloods etc...the long dreaded diagnoses was told, STAGE 4 TERMINAL BRAIN TUMOUR. I thought I was having a de ja vu, as it was exactly same as 7 years ago, when we've been told about Lynette's tumour.

Trying to keep a brave face in front of our Lynette, inside we both were absolutely destroyed.

A week after diagnosis, Darren's brother sent us an article about a 33yr old young man who has been diagnosed with stage 4 terminal brain tumour, and have been advised to go to Germany for Dendritic cell-based treatment, and got the all clear now.

I've started to look into it, contacted a clinic in Germany where this young man went, collected more information and found out that there is clinic in the Czech republic who does the same treatment, which would be more convenient for us to go to as we know the lingo. No time wasted, wats app call with prof. Jaroslav Michalek from Cellthera clinic in Brno and treatment plan for Darren in being created. This treatment is being done together with Chemo / radiotherapy. As we decided not to be informed about any statistics, life expectancy or prognosis, we are not in an absolute denial, and know that these tumours are not treatable. However they can be kept under control for many years with the correct treatment and mindset. What they are hoping for, is to shrink the tumour with Chemo, and then cell treatment vaccine will keep it under control for years to come.. Everything is happening very quickly and we are planning to go the Czech republic in 3 weeks time for first set of immune system boost.

We are kindly asking for any donations toward Darren's treatment to ease off the financial pressure and focus on us as a family, as life has put many obstacles in our way.

Information about treatment:

Dendritic cell vaccination has been developed as a unique anti-cancer method. Dendritic Cells are derived from patient ́s own immune cells that can be easily obtained from 300ml of peripheral blood. The portion of white blood cells obtained from blood are cultured in a specialized and EU-certified laboratory in order to obtain dendritic cells (professional cells of the immune system capable of inducing strong anti-cancer responses) which are loaded with universal tumor-associated antigens. Thus, DCV is able to stimulate own immune system cells in order to specifically kill only tumour cells. DCV can be ready within 4 weeks and typically 4-6 doses are prepared and can be shipped to the patient. DCV must be stored deeply frozen until used. DCV is applied as subcutaneous injection.