Thank you for donating, please spread donations across the 4 charities, not just the first one.

Update...

To write this breaks my heart, where is the justice? On Wednesday we got the news that Arthur’s scans were clear! Amazing! However he really wasn’t feeling great, so we went to hospital on Thursday night and had a CT on his head. Only to find out he had a huge mass in his brain. Something that no one seen coming and it was unexplainable. A lot went on in a short space of time and reality still hasn’t hit but unfortunately, yesterday, he fell asleep forever lying with, and holding his mammy and his daddy’s hands and with family around us ❤️. At 10 months and 1 day old this is beyond heart breaking, words can’t say how I feel, my heart isn’t whole and my head and body ache. He fought one of the hardest battles known to man and came out fighting, but sadly his tiny, perfect body couldn’t take anymore. He was amazing, incredible, unbelievable! His smile was infectious and he was the cutest, loveliest, most beautiful, best behaved baby ever. He was perfect, clearly far to perfect for this bitterly, cruel world. 🎗💔💔💔🎗

Arthur you are so loved, by so many and will be forever ❤️Forever 10 months 💙

Original post...

There are 15 of us running the Great North Run (Zoe Bewley, Tom Bewley, Adam Bewley , Zoe Tinkler, Amanda Carruthers, Alex Jefferson, Toni McCormick, Jamie Harrison, Stephanie Smith, Jason Vance, Louisa Harrison, Kelly Conway, Claire Beaty, Adele Benson and Stephanie Agnew). We are raising money for the charities that helped us (Arthur‘s parents) and Arthur through his journey of childhood cancer. Without their help and support it would have been a very difficult journey. We want to help as many other families as possible to ensure their journey is as positive as it can be.

As well as these charities we will be donating money to the special care baby unit (SCBU) where Arthur started his life.

We are wanting to donate money as evenly as possible to the charities, so if donating please try to spread it across the charities. Thank you!

Arthur’s story...

On the 25th June 2019, Arthur was 5 weeks old. We were bathing him and found a lump in his leg. We went to A&E at Carlisle and got quickly transferred to the RVI, where I handed my baby over, leaving him for the first time, with an anaesthetist 😥 for a biopsy. We then had to wait a week for results and our worst fears came true. Arthur was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma of the soft tissue, he’s the youngest they’d ever seen with this. We had to pack up our little lives and move into the RVI. Throughout this time he’s caught numerous infection, had an unimaginable amount of scans/test, he was oxygen dependent for 6 weeks, had life changing surgery and he’s had an unbelievable 91 doses of chemotherapy. However, he’s handled it all incredibly well, amazing drs and consultant with how well he’s recovered between rounds. The lump was 100% dead when removed and he only lost part of his quadricep in the process, when they thought it could have been it all. Arthur was the smallest patient the surgeon had ever operated on, it went textbook and he avoided intensive care. He’s been extremely poorly at times, but he’s absolutely smashed it.

Arthur is no longer an inpatient, and although he still need his end of treatment scans/tests before we get to ‘ring the bell’ (and checks until he’s an adult), this will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

I’m so grateful for the support our family and friends have shown and making the journey to see us throughout our time there. I’ve also met incredible families on the ward, some friends for life, who have literally got us through this. But most importantly I’ll be eternally grateful for the NHS, the drs, nurses and all the other staff in the hospital who we owe everything to, for what they’ve done for us! This story would have been very different if it wasn’t for them ❤️

These charities mean so much to us. So please donate what you can. Thanks