A four-year-old girl has died after receiving a diagnosis of a terminal brain tumour which couldn’t be removed. Aria Hodgkiss, from Wrexham, was heartbreakingly diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma on her third birthday in May 2021. There remains no known cure for the condition.
Announcing the news of Aria’s passing on social media on Thursday her family wrote: “Our brave warrior, our baby girl Aria passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at 12.30am. “We are absolutely devastated and we have no idea how we will carry on each day. But we promise you that we will carry on for you. We love you so so much Aria.”
After Aria’s symptoms first appeared in September 2020 her parents Melanie and Carl started to notice that she was losing her balance and her mobility was becoming increasingly impaired. Recalling the lead-up to Aria's diagnosis in an interview with WalesOnline in August last year Melanie explained that in September 2020 her daughter had started to become "really clumsy" and kept "falling over her own feet".
