Lady appeals for donations to assist her daughter after prognosis of mind and backbone most cancers

A grandmother from Clare, who’s recovering from a stroke, has appealed to the general public for donations to assist with bills for her daughter, who was lately identified with a uncommon type of mind most cancers and the backbone.

Louise Whitehead mentioned her household had been devastated by the latest prognosis of her 31-year-old daughter Rachael.

“As a household we have now no scarcity of affection, however as you possibly can think about medical payments and so on will likely be very troublesome as Rachael continues her lengthy street of remedy,” Ms Whitehead mentioned.

The Clonlara grandmother, who needed to retire after struggling a stroke 5 years in the past, requested individuals to donate no matter they might to a web-based account she and her companion her daughter, Alan Kennedy, created at https://www.gofundme.com/f/princess-rachael?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=buyer&utm_source=whatsapp.

Ms Whitehead mentioned her daughter was on account of start six weeks of intense radiotherapy at Bons Secours Hospital in Cork subsequent Monday, December 16.

Rachael Whitehead had simply began working as a midwife when she obtained her prognosis after being hospitalized when one among her legs turned painful and numb.

The younger mom of six-year-old Leo was instantly transferred to Cork College Hospital the place she underwent surgical procedure to take away a cancerous tumor on the base of her mind. Nonetheless, docs additionally found a lot of tumors on his backbone.

Louise Whitehead requested individuals to “ship my daughter positivity and power”.

“It is a very uncommon sarcoma, the docs do not know what sarcoma it’s, so the radiotherapy is transferring full steam forward, 5 days per week for six weeks,” Ms Whitehead defined when contacted.

“Rachael had a craniotomy and a tumor in her cerebellum, and she or he had a laminectomy, which is surgical procedure on her thoracic backbone to take away a part of a tumor.”

“I actually don’t know the way she talks to us, she had again surgical procedure final Wednesday and she or he had mind surgical procedure final Thursday. She’s unimaginable, a fully unbelievable rock, a miracle of a lady, she’s completely sensible,” Ms Whitehead mentioned, turning into emotional.

“She has a big tumor in her thoracic backbone and she or he has three additional down her backbone that we all know of in the mean time.” “The prognosis is that they don’t know what sort of sarcoma it’s or the way it will reply to radiation.”

“Me being a nurse and Rachael being a midwife, we’re cussed and we’re like bulls when we have now one thing on our minds, so we seemed for a spot in Germany that gives specialist remedy for sarcomas and I have already got talked to Rachael’s guide about it, and he’ll ship them his scans.

“And if we have now to go, we’ll.” There’s nothing like giving up on the first hurdle if radiation would not work, however we will stay assured that it will work and that it will kill it (the sarcoma).

“The rationale I opened the GoFundMe account is that Rachael shouldn’t be but eligible for welfare as a result of she skilled as a nurse, so she would not have a stamp and she or he would not have entitled to no wage as a result of she didn’t have sufficient time. labored as a result of she was on probation when she began.

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“We don’t need any stress or monetary worries for Rachael and we all know there will likely be many bills related together with her remedy.”

“She’s going to have to remain in Cork in a resort 5 nights per week for the subsequent six weeks, there’s petrol cash going up and down, there’s meals, bills and so on.”

Ms Whitehead mentioned she wished to thank everybody who had already donated to the fund.

She additionally thanked surgeons in Cork for what that they had already finished for Rachael, in addition to the charity Bru Columbanus who lately housed the household when Rachael underwent surgical procedure.