Gracie and Megan Garwood are two beautiful twin girls who were both diagnosed with Leukaemia within a week of each other.
The girls, along with mum Emma, dad Mark and little sister Martha continue to fight bravely against the condition and Gracie and Megan are receiving intensive weekly chemotherapy that is hoped will cure them.
Their treatment lasts another two years when it is hoped that doctors will be able to give the twins the all clear and they will be able to live normal healthy lives, just like the rest of us.
We want to give the girls something amazing to look forward to once all the treatment has finished. We always wanted to be able to raise enough to send the whole family to Disneyland Paris to fulfill Gracie and Megan's childhood dreams. However, with the amazing response and generosity of everyone so far, we're now hoping to be able to send them to the original Disneyland in Florida, USA!
Please help us make this amazing dream become a reality by donating to the fund.
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Letter received from Emma Brock-Garwood, Gracie and Megan's Mum.
Update on my beautiful girls - June 5th 2010
Hi everyone, this is a long needed update on Gracie & Megan's progress during their treatment.
Firstly & most importantly I would like to thank you all for your support, raffle ticket purchases & donations to get the girls to Disneyland, everytime they hear or see an advert for it they go wild with excitement.
The girls are now on Weeks 27 & 28 of treatment & doing amazingly, as with all the children we have met on this journey they seem to cope with the endless chemo, hospital visits & stays with such bravery & always with a smile on their faces (well sometimes they are grumpy especially when on dex better known as steroids and a real personality turner)!!
We have had a few temperature stays in hospital over the last few months but thankfully they have turned into nothing serious. Megan also had quite a severe reaction to a Peg injection, it was quite scary for us all, unfortunately because of this what was one injection is now 6 carried out every other day over two weeks, as you can imagine she hates them but thankfully they are soon forgotton, unfortunately there are a few more needed over the next few months.
We were due to have a well needed break over Easter but unfortunately Megan spiked a temperature on the Thurs, she came home on the Tues only for us to have to take Gracie in on the Wed.
We then had a month of dex's which because of the girls being a week apart, Gracie started one week she stopped then Megan started it was horrendous. I will be begging & pleading with our consultant to line them up next time.
So all in all our life is full of weekly hospital visits sometimes more but when they can the girls go to school, they love it & apart from dex weeks (it wouldnt be fair on the staff, girls or their friends) they go every day, join in with everything & especially love PE and in between all of this we are having fun times, seeing friends old & new, having days out & trying to have a bit of normality.
We are coming to the end of an 8 week block of delayed intensification, we will then have 14 weeks left of intense chemo & then we move onto a year and a bit of maintenance which still involves daily medication but 3 monthly visits to Addenbrooks instead of weekly, we have also got a finish date which is the 16 February 2012, truly exciting for us all.
Sorry for this long message, my fault for not doing it sooner, there is much more i could tell you but hopefully this gives you a little bit of insight into our family & of course my beautiful girls who we are all trying to do this for, they make us very proud.
Em, Mark, Gracie, Megan & Martha xxx
