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“This is a Northern Irish Childrens Cancer Charity dedicated to the memory of our son Adam, and is seperate from and not associated with The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation”

12/10/2026

Every mission needs a mission statement 💪🏼

200 days until we begin Derry’s Walls to the Mourne Wall 2027…

Are you going to be part of it? We certainly hope so, full details on our website very very soon 💙

07/10/2026

💙WEDNESDAY WARMER 💙

Appeal to ALL the families we’ve supported…

Next May, B Positive will take on our biggest challenge yet —
Derry’s Walls to the Mourne Wall.

160+ miles. 8 days. 1 mission.

But this walk isn’t just about the miles.

It’s about the children and families we’ve had the privilege of supporting.
And it’s about bringing our B Positive family together right across the country.

So today, we have a special appeal…

💙 If your family has been supported by B Positive, we would absolutely love for you to come out and walk a little way with us. 💛

Whether it’s a few miles or a few steps as we pass through your town, it would mean so much to have you there.

We’ll be making our way from Derry’s Walls, through towns and communities across Northern Ireland, before finishing at the Mourne Wall and we’d love to see some of the families who are at the heart of everything we do along the way.

This journey is for the families walking their own journeys, and for every child affected by childhood cancer. 💙💛

So, if B Positive has been part of your family’s journey, come and be part of ours.

📅 Saturday 1st May – Saturday 8th May 2027

📍 Derry’s Walls → Mourne Wall

🥾 150 miles | 8 days | 1 mission

DM us to express an interest or email 📧 [email protected]

01/10/2026

‼️ Appeal ‼️

If any of our generous fundraisers have finished with any of our advertising merchandise, such as pop up banners or buckets can you please get in contact and we will arrange a pick up!!

Thanks as always for you help, love and support we simply couldn’t do this without you all 💙

30/09/2026

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2026

Day 30

Behind every little photo is a child who has walked through the doors of the Children’s Haematology & Oncology Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast.

Behind every child is a family, each with their own unique journey — their own fears, their own battles, their own story.

For some, childhood cancer is September.
For others, it’s forever. 💛💙

Never forget the children behind the statistics. Never forget the families behind the children.

Please feel free to share this post so the world can see these special warriors. These children and many others are truly inspirational and are true life superheroes.

(Thank you to all the families who have sent in their precious photos, to those that have followed the posts for 30 days and to those that have interacted and reached out - it has been very much appreciated!)

29/09/2026

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2026

Day 29

Having not had any other children of our own, this one is both challenging and straightforward to write. As a parent to an only child, I know how much time both mine and David dedicated to looking after Adam. Watching other families and getting to know them, I heard their struggles and the challenge of managing all their children. My heart ached for the siblings, no matter their age! These children suddenly have to cope without their mum and dad, possibly moving from the family home to staying with relatives or family friends. They are confused, frightened, sad and lonely, all while trying to understand what is happening and wondering if their sibling will be okay. They have lots of questions, but may not always want to ask or have the chance to ask, as some might not want to cause any trouble and feel like they will only stress their parents more. Children are not allowed to visit their brother or sister on the ward, which makes it even harder for them to understand. They have to witness their special friend change before them. By the time the sick sibling gets home, they will likely have less hair, be thinner and may have a feeding tube. They don’t see these changes gradually, like adults do, since adults have the opportunity to visit the ward. Some children may also feel frustrated and angry because it feels like they aren’t getting enough time with their parents, even though they know it is where the parents need to be to get everyone back home together. Siblings often feel lost and forgotten, if they are in the town with their parent everyone will ask how the sick child is but rarely does anyone ask how they are. Through a journey like childhood cancer, let us please remember that behind every little warrior, there is another child quietly fighting their own battle—just in a different way.

28/09/2026

Childhood Cancer Awareness 2026

Day 28

Within days of diagnosis most children are brought to theatre to get a single or double lumen Hickman line inserted. This is a tube with either one or two lines that allows the delivery of blood products, certain medications, chemotherapy and also allows blood draws to happen. This line is automatically renamed to Mr Wiggly by the nurses and some children even give it its own special name. This line has to have a dressing changed at least once a week and be well looked after ensuring he does not get wet. These dressing changes are what cause children deep concern and trauma often taking two nurses to carry this out. When a child is going to bath it is important that Mr Wigggly is well protected kept dry and therefore wrapped in cling film. Children can not even experience a normal bath or shower and lots are afraid to even use the wash facilities as they have been told it’s so important to keep Mr Wiggly dry and safe.

27/09/2026

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2026

Day 27

It is true that all parents feel guilty when their child is diagnosed with cancer. There are many reasons for these feelings. Some arise immediately, others during the journey and some are triggered later in life. Upon diagnosis, we often ask ourselves, ‘Is this our fault and something we have done to make our child sick.’ In many cases, even before the diagnosis, we are already exposing our children to distressing procedures, such as blood tests to figure out what is wrong. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, these procedures only intensify as we prepare our children for surgery, a central line in their chest, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, holding your child down for dressing changes, administering oral medications—whether in liquid or tablet form—and most children are held down to insert an NG tube. I can’t explain what it is like seeing that first bag of chemo being hung and attached to your child while you sit there helpless wondering what’s ahead. These traumas, the sights, and sounds of not only our child but also hearing other children cry and wince through the night, stay with us forever. We do all this out of love and hope to save them, and when that plan does not work out, we are left thinking about the tears we created and often wonder why, even though we know it was for more time and to create more memories.

26/09/2026

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2026

Day 26

When we see photos on social media, we all recognise those iconic landmarks and cities. We also recognise popular holiday destinations and hotels. But once you’ve spent a long time in hospital or in different hospitals depending on where your child needed treatment, those landmarks change. You look at these photos or people on a similar journey and automatically think, ‘That’s room 3, Isolation 2, the day room, clinic, room 5, the treatment room, that office’. The list goes on. You can tell the difference between the rooms by the direction of the bed, the window’s location—all things no parent should ever have to know. Before you know it, you’re almost more interested in what places and people you recognise from hospital than in the latest holiday photo upload.

25/09/2026

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2026

Day 25

As a bereaved parent I am always happy to hear when treatments become more targeted, less damaging to children’s long term health and better outcomes. I never want another parent to face what we and others do every single day. If children are going to be put through the most gruelling of treatments and circumstances, they all deserve to survive and enjoy their adulthood. However it is very hard to hear when the treatment regime Adam got during his transplant would no longer be given. Because of Adam and sadly many other children, they no they aren’t getting the results they always want. Therefore there are new treatment plans and trials opening up to try and make sure less children are taken by AML. As a parent its very hard not to think, did Adam get sick too soon, (if he had to get sick at all and he was only 7 now), would he have been cured by the new treatment plans, would we still have our little boy and would our hearts be less broken? On the better days we know Adam got the best chance but it does not take away from the what if’s!

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