A two-year-old girl who pulls her own hair out due to a rare genetic condition is helping to raise money for a child who has cancer. Sydney Miller is being sponsored to shave her head in a fundraising effort for fellow tot Flora Gentleman, whose parents found out she had cancer just three months after she was diagnosed with autism.
Both families are from Dunbar in East Lothian and met via a playgroup for children with additional needs. Three-year-old Flora Gentleman was diagnosed with the devastating cancer neuroblastoma in her stomach last year.
Parents Steph and Jamie had been hoping to send Flora to New York to be treated with a new bivalent vaccine being trialled in the US, with the drug being successful in preventing relapses of the condition. They need to raise £312,000 by August 2022 for Flora to enrol on the trial that aims to stop her neuroblastoma from coming back.
