Izabels Journey - Snow Trip

7 year old Izabel Skye Sullivan, my beautiful brave, courageous warrior niece, lives in Perth Australia with her three older siblings, her dad and mum (my sister). She was diagnosed with brain cancer aged just 4! She has fought so so hard the last few years and through her journey has had to endure the most horrendous obstacles no child should ever have to fight. Yet she still smiles every day.

She is a true inspiration, her will to survive and her love for life beams through her beautiful smile. Izabel has received intensive chemo and radiation, has been left unable to walk after her brain surgery and has suffered a huge stroke. She has made huge progress but still has to have thickened fluids in case she aspirates and has three days a week of intense physio, as well as continuous hospital appointments and scans. Her oncologist said that unfortunately, she has the worst case of damage he has seen with this type of cancer.

Devastatingly, her last two scans are showing that she may have had a relapse! doctors Can’t be 100% sure, but there is something on her brain where the previous tumour bed is that isn’t meant to be there. She has had numerous scans but doctors are still uncertain what it is! A biopsy is the only way to be sure, but this is too dangerous for Izabel at this stage. So the doctors are taking the ‘watching & waiting’ approach, devastatingly, if this is a relapse there is no further treatment they can offer and this would mean end of life care for Izabel!

To add to the stress of this wait, Izabel also has an artefact on her liver which is also being investigated urgently.

To say Izabel’s family are devastated is an understatement. No one can tell what’s around the corner. No one could of predicted that Izabel would of been damaged so badly, there are no guarantees with recovery when you have this type of cancer!

I have decided to start another fundraiser to fulfil a dream of Izabel’s, whilst I know I have already done one fundraiser, the money was well spent on enabling Izabel to have a special bathroom purposely built, a new iPad, specialised trike, and helped the family massively as Izabel’s dad had to stop work for a year whilst she was undergoing treatment, her care is full time and will be for the rest of her life.

So, Izabel has always dreamed of seeing SNOW., she has never seen snow before. Her older siblings have all seen snow as they only moved to Australia 7 years ago.

I would so love for her to be able to go to Victoria and spend some time there in the snow, sledging, building snowmen and just being able to feel the crisp white icy snow on her fingers.

I would love her family to have photos and make precious memories doing something she would love to do. This would truly be a dream come true.

So, I am asking for you to please please help me raise funds to make Izabels dream come true, to help her to feel and see snow for the first time.

I am also writing to holiday companies in Victoria to ask if they are willing to gift any time on their resorts for Izabel and her family.

I am hopeful I can able to raise enough to pay for their flights and accommodation if necessary.

So please please share and if you can please donate, any amount is gratefully received and would be helping to make a very precious little girl’s dream a reality xxxx

You can see Izabel’s Facebook page from when she was first diagnosed here; copy and paste to your browser:

https://m.facebook.com/Izabelsullivan/