My Beautiful Brave Bonnie

Hi my name is Zoey. And I am a single mother to 5 daughters. Tammy-leigh (10) Ada-Jean (8) Bonnie-leigh (5) Zelda-lynn (3) and Xena-grace (19 months)

On December 24th 2 days After my daughter Bonnie's 5th birthday. Bonnie came to me with excruciating pain in her forearm. As a panicked parent I immediately took her to a&e as I thought she had broken it as it was misshaped and swollen and had came on suddenly, they x-rayed her arm which revealed no breaks. They told me it was likely sprained and to take her home rest and compress it, days go by and on New year's Eve her forearm was still swelling I believed something was truly wrong I took her to a&e again. they x-rayed again to check, again no breaks, this time they suspected a cyst and offered an ultrasound. A week later we had the ultrasound and bloods taken, they told me blood came back normal but they could not see it was a cyst on the ultrasound, they then offered a local MRI scan on her forearm. Another week later we had the MRI scan and I received a phone call 3 days later to say the swelling on her forearm was actually a tumor. They referred us to another hospital for a biopsy. Another week later a biopsy was taken. In all these weeks it continued to grow aggressively the swelling taking over her whole forearm to the point she had no mobility in her arm hand or fingers any longer. She was in agony, and waiting for the biopsy results was the longest 2 weeks of our life. We would ring every day telling them she was in agony, it was still growing to be told to basically sit and wait. We decided to take matters into our own hands once again and we drove her to another hospital where they immediately took her in. They were shocked at how big it had grown and how much pain she was in. She was immediately put on morphine, this hospital then chased up the biopsy results from the previous hospital for us then to be told it was cancerous. Due to the aggressiveness they had made a plan to immediately put her on chemotherapy to try and slow/stop the growing of the tumor on her arm. Last Monday she was taken to theatre to have a piccline put in ready for chemo and to finally have a whole body MRI scan to be told 3 days ago the cancer had spread from her forearm to both her lungs. In the space of 9 weeks it went from a suspected broken arm to now terminal cancer with only a year given. This news absolutely shattered my whole world.

due to the tumor on her arm causing compression syndrome killing the muscles it caused an infection that was attacking her kidneys so we unfortunatly had to make the decision to amputate her arm. My wish and goal for this money is to use it towards giving Bonnie the best memories and moments I can in the time she has left. Not just for her but for her siblings too so that they may enjoy it with her and make memories they will all hold close to them.

my current situation has unfortunately led me to have to split my children up, my 2 babies currently with an auntie and my 2 eldest staying with me in Lancashire, my goal is to use the money to find a property to rent closer to bonnie in Newcastle so that I may bring all my children including bonnie back together at home as quickly as possible not only for my childrens mental healths sake being away from me but also so they may be together for what time bonnie has left. I am currently running up debts paying for travel costs to and from bonnie as I do not drive, train fair is 100£ each time and having to pay for Airbnbs/hotels while I am there while also paying for rising bill costs at home on a single income has limited the amount of time I am able to have with bonnie. any support/donations are greatly appreciated.

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