Nevah Richards, of Crossways, was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma - a rare form of bone cancer – last year. The diagnosis changed life beyond all recognition for the 14-year-old and her family. Having endured gruelling treatment and long stays in hospital, the Thomas Hardye School student is now making up for lost time with her cancer currently ‘stable’.
She and her family have recently returned from a celebratory trip to Greece and are now counting down the days until they embark on an incredible trip to Australia – a place that Nevah has always wanted to visit. Nevah (second from right) and her family (Image: Adam Richards) She will also travel to Orlando, Florida, on a holiday arranged by Dreamflight, a UK charity that takes children with a serious illness or disability on a holiday of a lifetime. Heather, Nevah’s mum, said the family ‘isn’t taking anything for granted’.
She said that at her daughter’s last scan review ‘everything looked really good,’ and that doctors said, ‘the tumour is probably even smaller, and that the proton beam treatment is still working inside of her body.’ But Nevah also has a tumour on the back of her right lung and another on the front of her left lung, ‘neither of which has grown, which is a good sign,’ she said. The family are now ‘keeping an eye’ on how Nevah is going to live with cancer in the future.
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