Angelica Campbell, whose four-year-old daughter Eliza spent her first Christmas in hospital undergoing chemotherapy for rare cancer BCOR sarcoma, is fundraising to buy gifts for other children with cancer celebrating Christmas at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). Eliza, who was diagnosed at 10 weeks old, has since been given the all-clear but suffers from a spinal cord injury leaving her disabled and in a wheelchair.
A mother whose daughter spent her first Christmas undergoing intense chemotherapy treatment following a rare cancer diagnosis now raises thousands in order to donate gifts to other children in hospital.
Read more: ‘This might be my last Christmas – the thought my baby son might not remember me is heartbreaking’ “Her first Christmas was a strange one – we were grateful she was still alive but as it was during Covid-19, it was sad and it meant she was just with me as nobody else could come to visit… it was quite lonely and daunting.”
“They did an X-ray and they could see she had a really big tumour that was growing really close to her spine and compressing her lung,” Angelica said. “She had some of the strongest chemotherapy you can have, they call it the Red Devil,” Angelica said. Angelica is doing so again this year, raising nearly £5,000 so far and saying she has bought “loads and loads of presents”.
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