Artie's family want more government support to cover costs associated with long hospital stays.
A family who travelled 75 miles almost every week while their son was being treated for a brain tumour are calling for more support to cover costs associated with long hospital stays.He spent 12 weeks in Bristol Children's Hospital resulting in his family being forced to pay travel and other expenses on top of their normal household bills.Artie, who lives near Yeovil, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a primary central nervous system tumour.
His mum, Lauren, said they did not have time to pack and found themselves having to pay out for supplies."When we first went up to Bristol, we just basically had the clothes on our back," Lauren said. Lauren said it was a struggle to find the money for fuel, parking and food and whilst still having bills to pay for at home.
"We work hard and even so, everything we earn is spoken for, so when you have something like this happen out of the blue... it comes to the end of the month and you wonder how you are going to pay for everything."" have been telling us about travel costs for years and years, and no-one's listening in the wider decision making system," said Sonia Malik, head of policy and influencing at the charity.
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