“I know I should feel totally elated with every thousand I hit, but I usually need a day in bed to cry and have a think,” Sarah Griffiths says reflecting on her mammoth fundraising mission in memory of her daughter Daisy Wyatt who died aged just 14 from Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
Since Daisy died in 2017 Sarah has made it her goal to do everything possible to keep her daughter’s memory alive, and do as much good as she can in her name. “Daisy touched so many people’s hearts in her short life and she smiled through everything, and I know I need to continue smiling for her,” the doctor’s receptionist from Blackwood told WalesOnline. Last month with a competition which she shared with her friends online she reached £100,000 for the charity Dreams and Wishes, and she has no plans to stop.
“It’s totally overwhelming when I hit each thousand extra, so when I hit £100k it was almost too much. The next day I hit a brick wall. It’s a feeling of sadness, like my whole body is sad. But Daisy wouldn’t want me to feel like that, she’d want me to carry on smiling for Zak and Evan (Daisy's brothers) and Leighton (Daisy's dad).
