'We thought our little girl just had a sick bug - then we found out she'll die if a cure isn't found'
14.03.2023 - 21:25
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Two careful parents took their four-year-old, Indie Thomas, to hospital thinking she was being troubled by a sick bug like any other little one. What they found out later turned their lives upside down.
Doctors made the horrifying discovery that Indie had an inoperable brain tumour, leaving her sick, incontinent and unable to walk properly. Now six-years-old, Indie is on chemotherapy that is making her ill, but her heartbroken parents have no other option as the savage tumour has taken all the sight in one eye and half the sight in her other.
Indie’s parents are raising money for the establishment of a new brain tumour research centre. They hope that it will help Indie and other brave children who are suffering from the deadliest of all childhood cancers, for which there currently is no cure.
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Indie Thomas, from Chorley became sick, incontinent, and unable to walk properly before an inoperable mass on her brain was discovered. During spring 2021, Danielle Thomas and husband, Danny, 33, took the four-year-old Indie to Royal Preston Hospital with what they thought was a sickness bug.
Danielle, 29, said: “The doctors also thought it was a sickness bug, but over time Indie lost all control of her bladder to the point where she would wet herself and not realise.
“The GP gave her antibiotics for a water infection but by then, Indie couldn’t walk properly. We went back to the hospital in September and the doctors did lots of neurological tests, followed by an MRI scan which revealed a large mass in the centre of her brain which was filled with fluid.
“I was in total shock because the doctors were