Ayrshire mum hopes sky dive can inspire brain cancer change after losing son to cruel disease

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An Ayrshire mum has told how doctors could only tell her dying son to “go home and make memories” as he lost his fight with brain cancer.Dawn Kennedy from Ayr has recalled the horrific moment that medics had run out of options for her son Jay who died in October 2021, aged just 20.Around 18 months earlier former Belmont Academy pupil Jay was first diagnosed with brain cancer after a tumour the size of an orange was discovered by medics.The aggressive tumour was tackled with three major operations and blasts of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

But the cancer returned and despite best efforts doctors were unable to do anything else to treat Jay.Dawn has opened up on that shattering moment as she vows to raise awareness for more research to be done to treat and one day cure brain tumours.The grieving mum is set to take a ‘jump for hope’ by leaping out of a plane at 10,000 ft for Brain Tumour Research.Dawn, 53, will be joined by Jay’s older brother Blair, 25, as they take on the endurance challenge in Perth on June 10.Dawn told Ayrshire Live: “Brain tumours are a killer, they take more lives under the age of 40 than any other cancer, and just 12 per cent of people survive more than five years.“It’s not just tough on families but it’s tough on the amazing doctors and researchers who would love to be able to do more, but there has not been enough funds ploughed into it.“When there was nothing else they could do for Jay all the doctors could tell us was to go home and make memories.

It is horrific and absolutely shattering to hear that as a parent.“At the time Jay wrote a journal, “maybe one day this will be treatable but we’re not there yet.” We really hope he is right and future generations of families won’t have to go through