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<\/p>\nNow brave Isabella has finished her treatment – and hopes to go to Disneyland<\/p>\n
Grateful parents Adam Dale and Jessica Welsh have opened up about their baby daughter\u2019s harrowing experience with cancer – after strangers \u2018flooded\u2019 them with kindness. Two-year-old Isabella Dale was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the Royal Stoke University Hospital<\/a> when she was just 10 months old.<\/p>\n The Fegg Hayes<\/a> couple – who have two other children – had believed little Izzie was a perfectly healthy baby girl. However, a seemingly harmless symptom soon revealed something very worrying.<\/p>\n Dad Adam, aged 34, said: \u201cWe spotted a tiny, pin-prick bruise rash on the bottom of her feet. We left it a few days, as we\u2019ve had other kids and we\u2019ve seen rashes before. It didn\u2019t make us panic right away.<\/p>\n \u201cBut soon it had spread everywhere. It was on her belly, it was on her back, on her arms. So I tried to get her in the doctors. The GP told me they had no appointments available, but I was determined. Because of her age there was no way she wasn\u2019t getting seen. I said whether you give her an appointment today or not, I\u2019ll be bringing her down.<\/p>\n \u201cThe doctor examined her. Izzie looked quite pale, so we thought the doctor was going to say she was anaemic. But they told us they wanted us to go to the children\u2019s assessment unit in the Royal Stoke University Hospital. From there it went dreadfully downbank. They did a blood test. Soon the results came back and the doctors sat us in a room. They said they couldn\u2019t be absolutely certain without a bone marrow aspiration but they were confident our baby daughter had blood cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n Izzie was rushed to Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital for further testing. Medical experts soon confirmed Adam and Jessica\u2019s worst fears on March 1, 2023, handing the infant a formal cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was hard, and still is hard,\u201d Adam explained. \u201cNobody wants to see their little girl go through something like that. And the worst part is you feel like you can\u2019t do anything. You wish you could just make it stop for them but obviously it doesn\u2019t work like that. So yeah, it\u2019s been a real challenge for myself and my partner. Her sisters have really struggled with it too.<\/p>\n \u201cBut Izzie\u2019s doing really well. Obviously the situation isn\u2019t brilliant, but she\u2019s responded the best she can to the treatments. That little girl has had more treatments than most people have in their adult lives. She\u2019s had chemo, lumbar punctures, you name it. She was asleep more than she was awake. Now, after more than two years she\u2019s finally finished all her treatments. There\u2019s still many years of hospital appointments to come, but she\u2019s finished for now and that\u2019s the main thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Adam has launched an online fund-raiser to try to take Izzie to Disneyland Paris.<\/p>\n \u201cIt took a lot for me to set up this GoFundMe,\u201d he said. \u201cI had to swallow a lot of pride to do it. I pondered on it for week and weeks – I wanted to do it all myself, as a parent. But I thought there\u2019s a lot of nice people out there and doing the fundraising could help get us there quicker.<\/p>\n \u201cInitially the idea was to just share it around with a few people I know. We didn\u2019t expect much of a response. Not many people know Izzie outside of our family and a few neighbours. Because of her condition and how young she is, we\u2019ve kept her wrapped in cotton wool. The poor girl\u2019s barely left the house apart from to go the hospital, just because of how bad her immune system is.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Adam and Jessica were soon \u2018blown away\u2019 by the support they received from kind-hearted individuals from around Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n Adam explained: \u201cA young lady named Sam got in touch with me and told me she would be climbing Mount Snowdon for us. Then my cousin set up a raffle with loads of amazing prizes. Then some other ladies – Lizzie and Gemma – hosted a day and night event in Burslem with raffles, quizzes, a fancy dress contest. Another young lad named Bradley Maurice got in touch with us to tell us he\u2019s going to do another fundraiser. He\u2019s a 22-year-old lad who I\u2019ve never met in my life. He told us he\u2019d be doing a six-hour run from Baddeley Green to Manchester. I couldn\u2019t believe it. Honestly, the amount of support and kindness we\u2019ve received has blown my mind. There\u2019s that much going on that it\u2019s hard to keep track of it all. It\u2019s given us some much-needed positivity and we couldn\u2019t be more grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n You can support Izzie\u2019s trip to Disneyland by visiting the GoFundMe page, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Izzie-and-Adam.jpg\")
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Izzie Dale spent most of her early life in hospital<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Izzie-sister.jpg\")
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