Coleraine’s Isla Gault was diagnosed with a brain tumour in February and Sunday’s family fun day and tractor run has raised £6,105 to support Isla who underwent life-saving surgeries in February. The Damhead primary school pupil became seriously ill just hours after competing in the Ballymena Irish Dancing Festival.Her mum Hilary Gault, recalled: “Isla showed no symptoms of the tumour until later that night, after she had gone to bed, when she started being sick and said she had a really sore head.
“Isla never had headaches so we knew something was wrong. She wasn't making any sense and was starting to lose consciousness. “It was really scary; thankfully we live close to Causeway Hospital and got there at around 2.
30am. We saw a consultant and a CT scan showed a bleed in Isla's brain.“She was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital by ambulance for emergency surgery and an MRI scan the following day showed she had a brain tumour.
"Our lives completely turned upside down, and within weeks she’d undergone life-saving surgeries to remove the tumour before receiving six-weeks of proton beam radiotherapy in Manchester.” In response Roadside (Garages) Coleraine set up a Give Wheel fundraising page and hosted the charity event to help their marketing colleague - Isla’s mum – as well as support their chosen charities MacMillan Cancer and Young Lives vs Cancer. In collaboration with Damhead Primary School, Coleraine and Dominican College in Portstewart, where Isla’s.
