How can Bradley be dead? He’s only six
and so much older. To her he seemed little and it was hard for her to understand how he could be the one to go.
“She deals with things in her own way but we’re devastated for Bradley’s mum and dad. They’re lovely,
lovely people. Bradley was a special little boy. I’ll always remember his cheekiness. He had a real wit for such a young lad and he kept the other kids smiling on the ward.” Bradley, from Blackhall Colliery, Co Durham, and Brooklyn were side by side at the Children of Courage awards in the North East and Cumbria at Newcastle United’s St James Park ground last November.
And our exclusive picture shows the pair enjoying the Christmas lights switch-on at Brooklyn’s home town of Peterlee, Co Durham. They given the all-clear and by shared Santa’s sleigh, along February 2016 she was well with five-year-old leukaemia enough to go back to school. sufferer Mia Tate. Six months later her mum Brooklyn was diagnosed and dad, HGV driver husband with kidney cancer in August Shaun, 47, were devastated 2015. Chemotherapy after a scan found a second tumour in her right lung. caused her to In January this year she had lose the use of half her lung removed. Now the her legs and cancer is in remission and she arms temporarily is on a long road to recovery. – and Joanne said: “Bradley’s mum she had a Gemma and dad Carl have kidney been such a rock for us. removed. “No matter how serious Two months Bradley’s condition was, they later she was always got in touch to offer
Bradley was so brave and I know that helped other children including Brooklyn JOANNE HUTCHINSON MUM OF BRADLEY’S HOSPITAL PAL