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Isabelle thrived in her first three months of life but her great start ended suddenly and dramatically just before Christmas 2020 when she fell ill with a severe lung infection.

Harmony’s heart story began when she was still inside her mother’s womb which she shared with her twin sister, Mya.

When Aliona started feeling breathless, she thought it was just a sign she was unfit. She never expected doctors would find a tumour the size of a rockmelon pressing on her heart and lung.

Mia lost her arms and legs to sepsis when she was four, but today, according to her mum Amy she’s as active as any other eight-year-old.

Seventeen-year-old Asha was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a type of bone cancer that mostly affects children and young people.