Christmases with cancer are very tough. Here at Gold Geese we try to do what we can to make them a little easier for our Gold children and their families.
Families like George’s. Two weeks before Christmas 2021, George’s family were told the devastating news that George had soft tissue sarcoma – a form of bone cancer. One week before Christmas, George started chemotherapy at UCLH.
George’s mum, Danielle, explains what happened next:
“It was devastating. It’s like all the things you worry about day-to-day all wash away. Suddenly your world stops and you’re just worried. As soon as you think ‘cancer’ you naturally think the worst, oh my God we’re going to lose him.
One of the mums at school told me about Gold Geese three or four months after George was diagnosed.
We were going through a hard time and Gold Geese offered for us to have a distraction couple of days. I had no idea what that was! Gold Geese paid for us to have a trip to Legoland. It was really good for the kids, especially for George’s brother, to be distracted and get spoilt for a little while.
We came to the Gold Geese Christmas grotto twice and Gold Geese bought George a big box of Lego after he had an operation so he had something distracting to do while he was immobile.
George has been cancer-free since August 2022. He still has reviews every three months and X-rays of his chest as there’s a high risk that the cancer could come back in his lungs.”
Every year we support families at Christmas and beyond with gifts, experiences, counselling and cost of living help. The support for George and children like him would not be possible without your generosity and that of our amazing community. Thank you.
This Christmas, we are asking for your help to bring some extra sparkle and joy to children in hospital over December. Please donate £10 today to help us purchase decorations and brighten up a child’s hospital stay this Christmas. With your support, we are going to decorate the children’s wards at Southend, Basildon and Broomfield Hospitals.
