"This is a very important birthday."
A Dublin mum whose toddler son was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour has asked for help to make his birthday "the biggest celebration of his life".
Yavanna Keogh, who runs the beauty blog
MakeupMonster, revealed the
heartbreaking news about her son, Oscar, earlier this year.
She shared that the then-three-and-a-half-year-old was diagnosed this year with Diffuse Inartistic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare and aggressive brain tumour that, sadly, has no known cure.
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Yavanna and her partner Lar set up a
GoFundMe page to give their little boy "the time of his life, for however long that is."
And in the lead up to Oscar's fourth birthday later this year, his mum has shared another social media post - explaining that they were determined to make it the "biggest celebration of his life".
She asked for social media users - "wherever you are in the world" - to send him a birthday card "to show him how special he is" if they were able to.
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She said that they have set up a temporary P.O. Box to receive the birthday cards.
She wrote:
"Ok so we’ve a BIG favour to ask. Oscar turns 4 on the 24th June and this is a very important birthday. We have no guarantees that there will be another.
"We’re choosing to not think about that at all because then we won’t be able to function.
"Right now we’re choosing to focus on making his 4th birthday the biggest celebration of his life.
"So our favour to ask is this - Wherever you are in the world, IF you are able to (and only if), could you send him a birthday card to show him how special he is?
"We’ve set up a temporary P.O. Box so if you would like to send one, the address is - Yavanna Evans, Suite 218, 2 James Joyce Street, Dublin 1."
