I am completely beyond words 😢

Phoebe has been completely let down by the #NHS. How can they not give an 8 year old the chance to live and grow up. In her mums words, they have just sentenced her to her death.

For those following these posts, this is our cousins daughter Phoebe. And the NHS have refused to allow her the Liver transplant she will need to survive. Because the cancer ‘might’ come back.

I’m racking my brains about how I can help as I’m feeling pretty useless right now. I feel like we need to get this story far and wide but I don’t know how.

These are her mums words below. Please read, share and if you have any ideas I’m all ears.


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No.

They said no. That means we can’t even go private in this country. They’ve effectively blacklisted her—because it could come back. Yet, at the same time, they’ve admitted the transplant is viable.

They spoke about the “supply of livers and donors” as if that justified the refusal. Leeds’ oncology team is completely at odds with both our own oncologist and the leading expert in sarcomas.

I told them, outright, that they had just sentenced her to death.

The call itself was unbearable—it began with ten minutes of them apologising for their lack of communication. I finally had to stop them and ask the only question that mattered: “Are you saying yes, or no?”

Now, our oncologist is reaching out to a centre in Paris to see if they’ll do the transplant instead.

When I asked how we could appeal this decision, they didn’t even know. Imagine that—lives hanging in the balance, and they can’t tell us how to challenge their ruling.

But I will not let this go. I can’t. Every delay is time stolen from us, and we’re running out of time. We’re closer to the end than we should be.

The transplant is viable—they told us that themselves. And yet, here we are. I can barely think straight, I can barely speak.

All I know is this: I can not lose our little girl.

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