WE FEEL SO GRATEFUL

Emma Eyre, 39, says her nine-yearold daughter Eden is excited about Christmas this year, thanks to the team at Great Ormond Street Hospital who helped her after she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer

'Sitting in the GP surgery with my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Eden on my lap, I had tears streaming down my face as I begged for help. Having spent the past six weeks in and out of appointments, I knew that something wasn't right. We were all missing something, but I didn't know what.

All of a sudden she'd had lots of infections and illnesses and the gaps when she wasn't poorly were getting smaller. She was lethargic and hadn't been able to consume anything other than a smoothie in weeks. Her stomach was swollen too, but I'd put that down to constipation. But it turned out to be a tumour growing in her stomach.