Mother's 10,000-step challenge raises funds for brain tumour research after daughter's diagnosis

Three-year-old Sonia Gallardo endured months of diagnostic testing, insertion of a port near her heart, nasogastric tube placement, and 18 months of chemotherapy with significant hospital stays and emotional distress.

When a mother's instinct refused to accept easy reassurance, it set in motion a long diagnostic journey that would eventually name the invisible threat stealing her daughter's vitality. In 2019, two-year-old Sonia Gallardo was found to have an inoperable brain tumour at the heart of her small body's most delicate architecture, and the treatment that followed — eighteen months of chemotherapy — has brought her, improbably and gratefully, to the threshold of preschool and ordinary childhood. Her mother Paola now walks ten thousand steps a day in February, raising funds for Brain Tumour Research,

Mother's 10,000-step challenge raises funds for brain tumour research after daughter's diagnosis

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