Kim rushed her daughter to hospital after she collapsed, but doctors found something was terribly wrong
A teenager was diagnosed with a deadly brain tumour which took away her ability to speak - after she fainted at school and started slurring. Ellie Riccio, 14, started showing symptoms like slurred speech and falling over repeatedly.
Now her mum is marking what would have been Ellie's 16th birthday with a fundraising challenge to help find a cure for the disease. Kim said: “I was grateful that during the last months of her life I got to be her mum again, and not her carer. “We celebrated New Year in London and watched the fireworks from the top floor of the hospital. I observed the joy in her face as she watched the spectacle in the sky for the first time. It was bittersweet as I knew it would be her last.”
Ellie died in Shooting Stars Hospice in Guildford on 28 June 2022. Kim is taking on Brain Tumour Research’s 100 a Day Your Way challenge - doing 100 reps of any exercise a day for all of November.
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