This time last year shattered mum Nicky Foxley was dreading the year that lay ahead – because she didn’t know if her daughter Elara would survive 2020.
The hell of Covid-19 had yet to emerge, but she was already facing her own private nightmare after her two-year-old girl was diagnosed with the deadliest of children’s cancers.
Strange bruises that had appeared on Elara’s face had been diagnosed as advanced neuroblastoma – and doctors warned single mum Nicky not to Google the condition.
They immediately put the tot on chemotherapy – and when Elara handed her mum a clump of her hair in hospital on Christmas morning 2019, the full horror of what was happening hit home. “Elara was obsessed with fairies and princesses, so I said it was the
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