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As most of you will be aware our daughter Hannah was taken ill on March the 1st with increasing frequent and intense headaches and to all our surprise was diagnosed with a brain tumour!!!! She had a couple of operations and is making fantastic progress and returned to work just three months after receiving the diagnosis.

The diagnosis, treatment and care that she received, initially at UCLH and then the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in Queens Square, was quite simply fantastic, world class and a testament to the under pressure NHS that we all support and some of us work for. We simply cannot praise the staff enough  for their expertise and care and our family and friends will be eternally grateful for what they’ve done.

We’ve told Hannah she is ‘one of the lucky - unlucky ones’, unlucky to get an extremely rare ‘child/young adult tumour', but extremely lucky that her work colleagues reacted like they did and sent her to the UCLH A&E (who also run the NHNN), lucky that her colleague asked the Doctor when they needed to scan someone with these conditions, lucky that they were able to treat her immediately at the NHNN, lucky that the condition was operable and finally that the tumour was very benign!!

Our family has already started raising money for the National Brain Appeal as a ‘thank you’ and to support research to help others in the future.

Hannah’s boyfriend Danny and her cousin Hayley took part in a local sponsored run in May (as did I but I can’t say that I was anywhere near their standard) and we raised over £1200 + Gift Aid and the fund raising efforts continue!!

Danny is running in aid of the Charity in the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon on October the 8th and has already raised another £425 + Gift Aid….. and

Our family have always been heavily involved in the villages football club, with our  Dad being player and secretary for nearly 50 years, and our Mum washing the kit for well over 50 years, my brothers and I are still helping run the club, trying to keep the tradition going.

The football club simply wanted to help us raise more funds for The  National Brain Appeal.