Millie Mai's Story By her mum Susan I’m happy to share our story because I know when you’re in this you’re looking for success stories. You want to read about the ones who are further down the road, even 10 years down the road, to have some hope. ...
Marlie Meehan
Marlie’s Story By her mum Jenny Previous to her diagnosis, Marlie was super healthy, really energetic, so bubbly and she was very advanced for her age. In July 2021, she was three and a half and it was during the heatwave when she became lethargic...
Clodagh Gordon
By her Mum Eimear Hardiman Clodagh was born in Sunshine Hospital, Melbourne, Australia in February 2016, where myself and my Australian husband Cam were living at the time. We all moved back to Ireland five months later in July 2016. A year to the day...
Rachel McGovern
By her Mum Geraldine My daughter Rachel was in Junior Infants in June 2022 when she had routine vision and hearing screening. The nurse thought that she might need glasses – nothing alarming - and made a referral. We were seen in October in Sligo outpatients....
Jimmie Quail
By his Mam Louise In March 2019, my son Jimmie, who was three at the time, was diagnosed with a 7cm Rhabdomyosarcoma in his left cheek. For the previous six months, we’d been banging our heads against a wall trying to figure out what was going on with him. ...
Tessa Garry
By her Dad Mark Tessa was born in 2017, the youngest of four, and she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma 14 months later, just after Christmas 2018. She had a tumour in her central nervous system and it had metastasised behind her eye, which is how we knew that...
Patrick O’Neill
By his Mum Eavann A month before his 4th birthday, Patrick was very pale and tired. He had bruising and swollen lymph nodes in his neck and our GP was so concerned, he advised us to go to Crumlin for bloods as soon as possible. We were due to attend an...
Karl Corcoran
Just a little over 2 years ago, on the 4th of January 2021, I was diagnosed with High Grade B-Cell Lymphoma. This diagnosis was actually a year coming, I had been misdiagnosed during the year previous as blood tests and x rays didn’t show up anything. In...
Aoife McQuillan
Our beautiful little girl Aoife was born in 2017 at 27 weeks weighing less than 1kg. We spent the first ten weeks of Aoife's life in the Coombe Hospital NICU watching our little girl grow and overcome many battles before she was big and strong enough to come home....
Aoife Keogh
Cancer treatment has given my straight-haired daughter curly hair. When she started on it, her hair was straight but growing curly so it was curly at the top and straight at the bottom. Now that she’s off it, it’s the opposite, it’s growing back straight but still...