July's News

July was a fairly quiet month by Post Pal standards, but there was still some things of note that happened in July.

Firstly, Post Pals received a few new arrivals: Ben H, who is 5 and has a rare brain tumour; Emma B, who is also 5 and has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia; Enya W, who is also 5 (weird coincidence?) and has Langerhans Cell Histiocytocis, a condition that's treated like cancer but isn't cancer; Jaz L, who is 9 and has terminal Ewing's Sarcoma, a form of bone cancer; Max P, who is 2 and is being tested on the website; and Xander G, who is 4 and has X-Linked Agammaglobulinaemia (no, I don't know what it means either!).

There was also some sad news; Lewis R passed away on the 3rd July, at only 2 years of age, from Neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a terrible disease, of all the 25 memorial children over half of them passed away from Neuroblastoma, and this cancer also took the lives of Chintzia (3) and Amelia-Grace (8) on the 23rd and 24th of June, only two weeks earlier.

On a happier note, the Post Pals party was held this month! This annual party is a tribute to Post Pals and all the kids it has helped and is still helping. I will update on how the party went when Post Pals updates.

Apart from this, July has been pretty slow-the team must have been busy, because there haven't been any updates since Lewis passed away.

Look out for August's update!

Dannii xxx