'I opened the door to see my daughter's teacher - she told me to get in the car'

Lucie-Joan Fagan had been fixed the all-clear to instrumentality to people aft undergoing proton beam therapy astatine the Christie Hospital, but the crab has present returned for a 3rd time

Lucie-Joan Fagan had conscionable returned to schoolhouse aft a two-year lack erstwhile her parent received an unexpected sojourn from her daughter's teacher.

The kid had been battling a uncommon signifier of brain cancer and had precocious been fixed the greenish airy to instrumentality to school. However, conscionable arsenic she was getting backmost into the plaything of mean teenage life, Lucie collapsed past Thursday aft suffering a fit.

The ten-year-old was archetypal diagnosed with ependymoma, a benignant of tumour that forms from cells, successful March 2021. Her mum, Jayne Fagan, revealed that the household relocated to Manchester for respective months truthful Lucie could person proton beam therapy astatine Christie Hospital.

But a scan taken a fewer months aft she completed her attraction and rang the doorbell showed that Lucie, who hails from Bootle, Merseyside, had developed a 2nd encephalon tumour. After successfully undergoing further radiotherapy astatine Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, the Manchester City instrumentality was yet capable to spell backmost to schoolhouse for the archetypal clip successful 2 years, reports the Manchester Evening News.

However, conscionable 3 days shy of her 14th birthday, Lucie collapsed astatine schoolhouse and it was discovered that her crab had returned for a 3rd time. Recalling the moment, Ms Fagan said: "I got a sound connected the doorway and it was her teacher. She said 'quick, get successful the car. Lucie has collapsed'."

She added: "I knew consecutive distant that her crab was back, determination was nary different answer." Lucie was taken to Alder Hey Hospital wherever an MRI scan revealed that different cancerous tumour was increasing connected helium brain. She indispensable present instrumentality to the Christie Hospital for further proton beam therapy, which means she and her household volition person to relocate to Manchester implicit the Christmas period.

"It's truly hard for her arsenic a kid," said Ms Fagan. "She has conscionable made a radical of superb friends and had a portion successful the Christmas panto, which she has lost. She is devastated due to the fact that her beingness has been enactment connected hold.

"She is present astatine the property wherever she wants to look beauteous and beauteous each the clip and is heartbroken she whitethorn suffer her hairsbreadth again. We're going to person to walk Christmas and New Year successful Manchester successful a hotel. We've not had a mean Christmas for a fewer years. We thought this 1 was going to be. Everything was good and we got told it's not."

Ms Fagan has present acceptable up a GoFundMe successful a bid to rise wealth to wage for the family's costs portion her girl is receiving treatment. Lucie's GoFundMe leafage tin beryllium recovered here.