As a single mum of four, I’d seen all manner of bumps and bruises. So, when my youngest, Eileidh, two, felt unwell in May 2014, I wasn’t unduly worried.
‘What’s up, love?’ I asked. I suspected it was a chest infection. But, when the GP saw her, he sent us straight to hospital.
It was there, at Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, that a grim-faced doctor told me, ‘We’ve found a tumour.’
Eileidh had neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer of the nervous system.
In a couple of hours, my little girl had gone from not feeling well to having cancer.
Eileidh had a 6cm-by-8cm tumour stretching across her abdomen. The cancer was also in her lymph nodes, pancreas, bones and jaw.
The tumour had surrounded her adrenal gland, filling her chest with…
