Sophie Whitworth mentioned she was ‘fobbed off’ along with her issues and is now’s urging mother and father to belief their intestine intuition
A mum claims medical doctors ‘fobbed off’ her tot’s vomiting as a strawberry allergy – and solely found it was terminal mind most cancers after she demanded a scan. Sophie Whitworth took her daughter Taliyah Whitworth, then 5, to their GP when she began being sick twice per week after consuming the fruit.
The tot had loved snacking a punnet of the fruit every night time so the 33-year-old assumed she’d eaten an excessive amount of and stopped giving her any. However regardless of reducing them out of her weight-reduction plan, Taliyah continued vomiting and began struggling with painful complications, extreme temper swings and bother along with her stability.
When carer Sophie took her to the GP to get checked out, she claims she was instructed it was possible an allergic response to the fruit. As Taliyah’s signs worsened over six months, Sophie says she repeatedly went again to her GP earlier than speeding her to hospital after she grew to become ‘unresponsive’ at college.
After demanding assessments be completed, Sophie was given the devastating information that Taliyah had medulloblastoma – a cancerous mind tumour the scale of a tennis ball. After present process a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy Sophie believed Taliyah had recovered and solely required annual check-ups.
However in Might 2025, seven years on, Sophie was given the devastating information that it had returned and there have been no remedy choices left. Sophie is fundraising £200,000 to lift money to fund at-home gear and remedy for 12-year-old Taliyah.
And the mum-of-two is now urging mother and father to ‘hearken to their intestine intuition’ and push for solutions in the event that they worry one thing is unsuitable.
Sophie, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, mentioned: “It is actually surprising. It is a mom’s intuition that your daughter’s not proper. It began off along with her being sick a few nights by means of the week. When she was sick the strawberries have been arising as a result of she’d have them as a snack at night time time.
“She’d have a full field, she cherished strawberries. The medical doctors did not do an allergy check or something. I simply listened to the medical doctors and thought ‘it is most likely strawberries then’ however in my intestine I knew one thing wasn’t proper.
“It isn’t regular on your youngster to be sick twice per week. I finished the strawberries for per week or two however she stored being sick.”
Sophie mentioned she took Taliyah to the medical doctors repeatedly over the course of six months as her signs worsened however was frequently “fobbed off”. On July 18 2018 Sophie acquired a name from Taliyah’s faculty saying she’d collapsed so rushed her to hospital and demanded she had a scan.
Sophie mentioned: “Throughout that six-month interval I used to be taking her to the medical doctors continuous. Her temper was actually unhealthy and she or he had actually extreme complications when she awakened within the morning as a result of that is the stress of the mind tumour. The medical doctors ought to’ve identified that.
“When it obtained actually unhealthy I used to be taking her to hospital and so they have been getting her to stroll in a straight line and she or he was wobbling and she or he was cross-eyed. I took her to the medical doctors once more and so they stored telling me it was only a virus and to take Calpol and that she’ll most likely flare up with a temperature quickly.
“I wasn’t comfortable about it as a result of nobody was listening to me. In the future I obtained a cellphone name from her faculty saying Taliyah had fallen asleep and that she was unresponsive.
“I rushed her to hospital and demanded for any person to scan her and type her out. They obtained safety and made an enormous drama and a fuss and tried to take away me from the hospital. They have been saying ‘there’s nothing unsuitable along with her’.
Scans finally revealed Taliyah had a mind tumour earlier than she was blue-lighted to a different hospital the place she had a shunt in her head to empty the fluid. 5 days later she had a 14-hour operation to take away the tumour.
Sophie mentioned: “I knew they have been going to seek out one thing, it was an intuition. I simply flooded into tears as a result of it was a shock. I could not console myself for an excellent minute. I noticed the scan and [the tumour] was huge, it was like a tennis ball at the back of her head.
“Are you able to imagine they fobbed me off for six months? [After the operation is] after I all the time say I misplaced my little lady as she didn’t come out the identical. I used to be coping with grief. She got here out and could not stroll, speak or eat. She was a unique character and it actually destroyed her mind.”
Docs have been unable to take away the tumour throughout a seven-hour surgical procedure on account of the place it’s positioned. Taliyah had 30 days of radiotherapy in September 2018 and began 9 months of chemotherapy in October 2018 to deal with the tumour.
After seven years of annual scans, the mum was devastated to find her daughter’s tumour had returned on Might third 2025. Sophie mentioned: “For seven years it has been a battle and it has been arduous work, it has been a significant shift in our household. She has cerebral palsy and Bell’s palsy and she or he’s obtained kidney issues and listening to issues. She did not eat for 3 years.
“She’d been struggling with moods once more and her fatigue obtained even worse and she or he’s been having actually unhealthy neck ache. I assumed ‘one thing’s brewing once more’. It is come again as a tumour at the back of her head.
“Sadly it has unfold round her head and it’s caught to her head so that they weren’t totally capable of take away it. Docs had mentioned if it comes again it is recreation over as a result of they cannot give [the tumour] the rest.
“They’re saying she will be able to have small doses of chemotherapy however it’s not going to remedy it, it is simply going to lengthen her life.” Sophie mentioned she’s refused chemotherapy and is making an attempt to pursue a holistic strategy to heal her daughter. She has arrange a GoFundMe web page to lift cash for at-home therapies, together with a £10,000 oxygen chamber.
Sophie mentioned: “I am refusing chemotherapy as a result of I do not need to put her by means of that and I feel there’s different methods I can do that. I need to go down the holistic route. I’ve completed a lot analysis and I’ve seen so many individuals stay from stage 4 most cancers and so they’ve been riddled with it. I do imagine I will heal my little lady.
“It is expensive gear however I am wanting to remain at residence as a result of I don’t need to take my daughter up and down the nation. She’s 12 and she or he’s struggling as it’s, it is simply not truthful. I am a mom crying out for assist and I am on my final resort.”
Now, Sophie is urging mother and father to ‘hearken to their intestine intuition’ if they think one thing is unsuitable with their youngster. Sophie mentioned: “Positively push and demand and do not ever take no for a solution. You have got a proper to push it forwards.
“You understand your personal youngster so if you happen to suppose there’s one thing not proper, you’ll want to push that. Hearken to your intestine intuition.” You possibly can donate to Sophie’s GoFundMe web page right here.
