Hope for Tayler Gailey
“15 Years After a Terminal Diagnosis, Tayler Is Fighting Again, Help us help our girl through this battle”
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Tayler's story...
Tayler was diagnosed at age 2 in 2011 with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) and given 59.4 gy of radiation to the brainstem and given 9 months to live.
Against all odds she is now 17, she is a beautiful, brave, and funny soul absolutely adored by her family. Aside from the effects of the radiation and the tumor she has been stable and has lived disease free for the past 15 years. However, on her 17th birthday Tayler was diagnosed with another "bigger and deeper" glioblastoma (radiation induced) in her brain stem - after having had an MRI due to facial numbness. The only medical option the family have been given now is to do further radiation to try and subdue the tumour growth to give her more time but even with this done there are no curative treatment options only palliative care ones.
To get this news years on after such a fight in her early years to have her here - its traumatic and devastating to say the least. Her family is in shock and just trying to be there for Tayler and each other as best they can.
Hence why this 'Give a little' has been created on behalf of Tayler's family, with the hope of being able to provide them with some funds to be able to give Tayler access to therapies to enhance her quality of life - such as hyberbaric oxygen therapy and to be able to purchase or access equipment to help her with mobility and comfort.
Thankyou so much for any support you can give
kat neal's involvement (page creator)
Lisa Gailey (Tayler's wonderful Mother) is my cousin and friend.
Use of funds
Funds will be spent on therapies or items to help improve Tayler's quality of life eg hyberbaric oxygen therapy and to purchase or access equipment to help her mobility.
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Latest update
Tayler's journey update 26 May 2026
Things have been incredibly intense for Tayler and her family the last few days.
Tayler developed pneumonia just two days before starting treatment. Things escalated quickly — she wasn’t responding to antibiotics and continued to deteriorate. We were airlifted to Waikato, where she ended up on a ventilator with 100% oxygen support and a feeding tube.
On Thursday night, she was transferred to Starship PICU. By Friday, we were told to gather the family, as they weren’t sure she would make it through the night.
In the midst of it all, Lisa pushed for a change in antibiotics and an increase in steroids. Thankfully, they agreed — and it seems to have helped. Tay is now down to 35% oxygen and holding her saturations around 97%.
There are now discussions around palliative radiation in the coming days. This is hard for Tayler and Family - struggling with what the right decision is, knowing where they've been before and how much she has already endured. Watching her go through this is heartbreaking
Yesterday she was more like herself — asking to go home, asking for food, and even telling her siblings to “kidnap her.” That says everything about where her spirit is at.
So for now, we follow her lead.
If anyone deserves a miracle, it’s her ❤️🩹💔
Costs are increasing for Tayler's family, she is in Starship for the forseeable future.. and as you can imagine travel and accommodation costs are not small. All your help, love and support is so needed and appreciated right now x
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