Coby roberts holiday

Cobys story.

This is something we never thought we would have too go through but I'll start from here. 4 weeks ago our 6 year old son Coby started suffering with severe headaches that would come and go but was always there everyday. He would wake up in the night with them and they were there of a morning as soon as he woke up, completely changing him from an active little boy too sleeping most of the day and staying in bed in a dark room. Countless trips to the doctors for them too check him and class him as neurologically okay but sent him off for blood tests and said that he could be suffering with migraines.

2 weeks into the 4 weeks he had started being sick due too his headaches he would turn pale and began to loose weight, so we took him back too the doctors. They prescribed migraine tablets for migraine attack and electrolytes too get the goodness back into him that he'd lost due too sickness. 3 days after his doctors appointment we took him for his blood tests. That same day he got substantially worse and was throwing up screaming in pain with the headaches at the front of his head. So we took him to A and E, the doctors checked him over and kept us in overnight too monitor and was told they're pretty sure he's suffering from migraines but as a precautionary measure they would send Coby for an MRI too rule anything else out.

Coby went for his MRI on Thursday 27th Feb. Few hours after we was called into a room to be told they had found a lump at the back of Cobys brain at the top of his spine. They told us Coby is going to have to be referred to Alderhey, so that same day they transfered us over too Alderhey in an ambulance and we have been here since. On Friday the day after his MRI Coby had an operation to release the pressure from his head by putting a stemt into his brain too drain the fluid which would stop the pressure in his head and stop his headaches all in preparation for his big surgery to remove as much of the lump as possible. So a week ago today, Thursday he was taken down to theatre and was operated on for 9 hours by Dr Connor Malluci, is a renowned Neuro surgeon. He explained how the operation had went as planned and they removed as much of the tumor as they could (pretty much the whole tumor). He then told us we won't know whether it's cancerous or benign until the biopsy from the lab comes back but if he had to guess what is was he believed it's a medulloblastoma which is a fast growing and aggressive cancerous tumour which grows in the lower brain and can spread to the spine. Yesterday the results came back and our worst fears were confirmed, that it is a medulloblastoma. This means our little boy now has to go through something no child should. So now he will be need multiple surgeries as well as a 6 week radiotherapy treatment and once he starts to recover from the radio therapy that's when they will begin chemotherapy. The 2 reasons we are starting this go fund me page is to help support us during these horrific times. Not only that another reason and the main reason we are starting this is when the dust as settled and all of this is behind us we want to take him on a holiday he will never forget. Thank you in advance for all your donations and we will keep you all updated as we find out more information.