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![Story from Jam Press (Cancer Skydive)
Pictured: Raeyah.
Dad devastated as daughter’s ‘growing pains’ turn out to be cancer – sharing story to help other parents avoid the same fate.
A dad has opened up about how his daughter’s “growing pains” were actually a sign of her cancer returning – sharing his painful story to help other parents.
Tomorrow (30 September), Kevin Rice, 40, from Bristol is set to face one of his fears: skydiving.
The dad is taking on the adventure in memory of his child, Raeyah, who tragically died from a Wilm’s tumour (kidney cancer) relapse earlier this year when she was just four years old.
In a horrible twist of fate, the child, who was originally diagnosed in December 2021, was given the all-clear after treatment – but relapsed in January 2023.
Just two months later, she lost her battle with the aggressive disease.
When builder Kevin and his wife, Rebecca, 42, first lost Raeyah, they were inconsolable.
And although his heart remains broken, the dad-of-three credits his “daredevil” daughter with “taking his fear away” – as he does whatever he can to raise funds and awareness of her illness.
“I’m a builder by trade and when my first son, Mitchell, was born, I automatically had a fear of anything that was going to harm me – and take me away from him,” Kevin told Jam Press.
“So I wouldn’t go up ladders or do anything out of the ordinary and I stayed like that until Raeyah passed away.
“Now, I’m not scared about jumping from a plane.
“It’s a very weird way of looking at it but when Raeyah left, she took all of my fear with her.
“My little girl was crazy and engaging, I can only imagine what she’d be saying [about the skydive].
“She was a daredevil, she had fire.”
Kevin and Rebecca, who also have two sons (Mitchell, 13, and Mason, 10) also want to share the warning signs of cancer for other parents to look out for.
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