Taylor's Story

In 2024 our son, Taylor, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia T cell. The 25th May 2024 was Taylor’s 3rd birthday.
He was having the best day, running round and happily playing on his new bike.

During the day, we noticed that he was developing random bruises all over his body but he hadn’t done anything to cause them.

We knew something wasn’t right, and having had previous experience with leukaemia (I sadly lost my Mum to it ) we decided is was best & safest to take Taylor to A&E at Bath RUH.

When we arrived they quickly did some blood tests and a few hours later, the bloods came back & we were told they were abnormal.
At this point, our lives came crashing down!!
The following day, we got sent to Bristol children’s hospital and Taylor then started his chemotherapy treatment & blood transfusions. We were in Bristol for almost 4 weeks when he started his induction to treatment.
The news we had already received was still
being processed but more bad news was to come. During our time in hospital, we found out that Taylor also has the melanoma gene, meaning he will have to have regular checks for the rest of his life.
All Taylor wanted to do was go home to his brother and sister, play with his birthday presents.
Taylor was called the ‘No boy’ while in Bristol hospital because everything the nurses did, Taylor would say ‘no no no’.
Taylor has come so far, he handles his medications & treatments so much better now, he’s always dancing, smiling and laughing.
Taylor has now started nursery and will be starting school in September, he’s very excited and loves being around other children and finally being able to mix with his peers & play makes him so happy.
We are currently in maintenance with one more year of treatment to go and Taylor continues to amaze us with his strength & determination.
He really is our little super hero 💙

We as a family, would like to say a massive thank you to BSF for letting us have a break away and have some proper family. Taylor & his siblings have missed out on so much over the past year so it means the world to be able to take them away & for them to enjoy themselves.
It’s truly amazing what your doing for families like ours 💕