Please help our IVF miracle IZZY ❤️

Hi my name is Sarah and I’m hosting this page for a girl I went to school with who’s the same age as me going through a very very difficult time with her and her little family please support with whatever you can ❤️❤️❤️ The reason I’m hosting this page is Izzy was a miracle in the first place. This family needs anyone’s support that they can get.

At age 29, karl was diagnosed with stage 4 Testicular Cancer and underwent extensive Chemotherapy and Surgery but has come out the other side. He is now 36 and has been in remission for 6 years.

September 2017, Karl and I went to the IVF Clinic with the intention of starting a family as ever since he had Cancer he was told that he automatically qualifies for a special IVF fund that has no waiting list and was fully funded, unfortunately this was not the case and our lives were shattered.

So we hopped on the public waiting list and while we waited for ivf we got married, bought a farm and renovated our house in preparation to start our family and basically got everything ready to start our family.

Jan 2019 rolled around and we got hitched, starting IVF 2 weeks later and it worked!

Izzy Lou Turnbull was born 9 nov 2019. She is the absolute joy of our lives.

I had a lot of problems towards the end of the pregnancy and further complications in childbirth.

After 2 blood transfusions and manual removal of the placenter I was unable to see izzy for the first few hrs. Izzy was rushed onto a breathing ventilation thing and onto fluids. After 4 days in SCBU the special baby unit we got sent home to start our lives.

After 3 months we noticed izzys neck was tilting to one side. After multiple visits to different doctors we finally got a referral to a specialist. By then we had notcied her arm wasn't working properly. After xrays and ultrasounds, osteo and physio they decided to an MRI but this would take several months of waiting.

In the meantime we continued with physio therapy sessions and working with Izzy to gain use of her left arm.

This has been going really well but they still wanted to do an MRI to make sure it didn't have something to do with the nerves.

This Tuesday (23/02/2021) we had the MRI. Karl and I were sitting with Izzy in recovery (as she had to be put under to have it) and just as we were getting ready to go, the pediatrician came and asked us to come with her upstairs. She asked several questions about Izzy’s condition then said that they didn't find anything to do with her arm but unfortunately they found a brain tumor in her curviacalmadallery junction. It is rare, serious, and that she was sorry.

Since then we have been in TGA hospital waiting to head up to starship tonight for another MRI to decide whether it is safe enough to do a biopsy or to go straight into chemo and radiation.

Currently as is stands, we know it is serious, we know its going to be a long road we don't know her chances of survival yet but we are just taking each moment as it comes.

If you would like to know more about Karl's Cancer, he has a blog (it has not been updated in a few years) the link below;

https://mycarcinoma.wordpress.com/author/karlgullett/