Rachel and Chris's eldest son Reece has just had two brain surgerys and has just started chemo and radiotherapy to fight an Anapalstic Astrocytoma tumour in his brain

Six weeks ago Reece collapsed at home without warning, he was rushed to the local A&E where an urgent CT scan showed a bleed on his brain by which time he was no longer able to breathe for himself and was intubated and was transferred to Alder Hey intensive care a few hours later on full life support, the pressure from the bleed became critical and Reece was taken into emergency surgery where it was discovered he had an Anaplastic Astrocytoma, an extremely rare malignant tumour that affects only 10 children a year. They removed part of the tumour and stemmed the bleed, two days later he was brought round and taken off life support and transferred to the neuro ward, a few days later he was home awaiting a follow up but sadly the tumour was still growing and on the second day home Reece collapsed again and had to be flown back by air ambulance to alder hey where he placed in High dependency and five days later he underwent an 8 hour surgery to remove the rest of the tumour and to place chemo wafers directly into the cavity in his brain, Reece has overcome the paralysis in his left leg but he has still got some paralysis in his left arm, hand and face but refuses to let this stop him and after six weeks was discharged to begin radiotherapy and a second chemo course on the 15th June.

On Saturday 30th of July, a group of us are skydiving from 15000ft to raise money for Alder Hey Children's hospital who's staff have been absolutely amazing and I'm sure will continue to be throughout this cruel and unfair illness. 

Please help us raise as much as we can for this worthy charity. Every penny counts xx