Family raise £100,000 in 24 hours for daughter's treatment
A family from Chester have raised an amazing £100,000 through a Go Fund Me page so their daughter can have a life saving treatment.
Erin was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the age of two in December 2012 after being unwell for many weeks.
She had over two and a half years of treatment which finished in April of last year.
During this time, aside from caring for their daughter, Erin's parents Sarah and Ant were active fundraisers for a fellow oncology childs appeal for treatment abroad and for Alder Hey Children’s Charity. Everything was going well, Erin was a happy healthy girl and had started doing really well at school. She was having monthly check-ups at Alder Hey but in March 2016 Sarah and Ant were given the devastating news that she had relapsed after 11 months off treatment.
Erin has endured two months of gruelling chemotherapy and needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Unfortunately tests have revealed that Erin isn't in remission, which she would need to be in order to have her life saving transplant.
There's a strong chance that Erin will need Car T Cell therapy to prepare her for a bone marrow transplant, but there's no guarantee that she will receive this treatment in the UK. Only one child per month nationally is treated with Car T Cell therapy, so Erin's family feel that funds now need to be raised so she has the chance of receiving this therapy abroad.
Yesterday they started pushing a Go Fund Me page, with the hope of raising £100,000 to get Erin to America.
That target was smashed within 24 hours and Sarah and Grant say they've been overhwelmed with people donating whatever they can to help.
Erin's Dad Ant told us;
'There was an envelope from a child at Erin's school and that had £3 in it... so it's lovely children are giving their pocket money away to help Erin. Every little bit helps.'
You can find out more about Erin's story on the family's facebook page .