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Our daughter Remy is 4 years old. Just a few weeks ago she was a happy, energetic little girl playing with her siblings and getting excited for Christmas when everything changed.
After we discovered a lump on her back and pushed for answers, scans and tests revealed something no parent is ever prepared to hear. Remy was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer called a Rhabdoid tumour on 23rd December.
Since that moment our lives have been completely turned upside down.
Remy is now under the care of the team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where she has already undergone biopsies, scans and begun intensive chemotherapy with radiotherapy and potential surgery in the near future. The treatment journey ahead will be long and difficult, involving repeated hospital stays, ongoing chemotherapy and constant monitoring.
Through it all Remy has shown more courage than we could ever imagine in someone so small.
As parents, our focus is simply on being there for her every step of the way. But the reality of long hospital stays, travel, juggling work and spending a lot of time away from our other children means the financial and practical pressures quickly build alongside the emotional ones.
Since mid-December our family has not been together in the same place for one complete week, with chemo cycles every 10-14 days and stays in our local hospital in between, which has been incredibly hard on not only Remy but her older brother, Leo, her little sister Lumi and her 5-month-old brother, Eden - it's tested us hugely.
As a painfully British couple, we find it difficult to ask for help but many people have kindly asked how they can support us - so setting up this page is a way for anyone who wants to help Remy and our family during this incredibly difficult time.
Donations will help us with:
- travel, accommodation and food costs during hospital stays
- making the most of the times when Remy is feeling well to have as much fun as possible
- ensuring our other children are also supported during treatment
- the many (many) unexpected costs that come with long-term hospital care
Most importantly, your support helps us focus on what matters most: helping Remy fight this and giving her the strength, comfort and love she needs during treatment - so soon she can get back to being the gymnast, ballerina, model and lively girl she was not too long ago!
If you are able to donate, share this page, or simply keep Remy in your thoughts, it means more to our family than we can put into words.
Thank you for standing with Remy and our family
— Gareth, Emily & family