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Saturday 14th July 2012 sees the second Mosborough Charity Music Festival on the Old Westfield School site, Westfield Crescent, Mosborough.
With Bad Manners headlining, the festival will feature All Weller, Noasis, The Talks, Section 60, Velcro Teddy Bears, Indra, Risky Heroes and Marquis Drive.
With doors opening at midday, the festival will go on until around 9.30pm. Tickets are available for £20 or £25 on the day.
This years charity is the Reece Winterbottom fund, with the aim of sending the family on a trip to Disneyland.
Reece - a Blades fan from Southall and a Beighton Nursery Infant School pupil, was rushed to hospital after vomiting and complaining of headaches only to discover he had a large brain tumour around his pituitary gland.
Reece’s dad David, 38, who also lost his wife to skin cancer last August, said: “I couldn’t believe it. After everything we went through with Kirsty, then to be told my son had a brain tumour?”
Reece was rushed to theatre where two of the best endoscopic skull base surgeons in the country removed the growth through his nose. Only three or four paediatric neurosurgeons in the country are able to carry out the complicated six-hour operation.
The Children's Hospital, Sheffield not only has specialist surgeons who can perform this surgery but also specialist endocrinologists and nurses to ensure the best treatment for these children.
At four centimetres, the tumour was one of the biggest of this type they had ever seen in a child of Reece’s age. David was told if he had taken Reece to hospital any later he could have died.
“They’re just fantastic. I just didn’t know what to expect - i’d just lost my wife to cancer. When they told me Reece had this mass on his brain I couldn’t believe it."
“They said they could operate and there were only a few people in the country who could do the operation because it’s really rare. It was unbelievable.”
Doctors fitted a drain to remove the fluid building pressure in Reece’s head, and a few days later he was taken into theatre where consultant paediatric neurosurgeon Mr Saurabh Sinha removed the entire tumour.
The craniopharyngioma - a benign tumour wrapped around the pituitary gland at the base of the brain - was able to be extracted through Reece’s nose to avoid cuts to his head.
David, who also has sons Louis, 10 and Charlie, five, said: “We were so lucky to have Mr Sinha. He knew all the circumstances about what had happened with Kirsty, and he seemed delighted when he told me he had got the whole tumour out.”
Tickets can be purchased online or from the Queen and Vine public houses in Mosborough.
For more information see: http://www.mosboroughmusicfestival.co.uk
With Bad Manners headlining, the festival will feature All Weller, Noasis, The Talks, Section 60, Velcro Teddy Bears, Indra, Risky Heroes and Marquis Drive.
With doors opening at midday, the festival will go on until around 9.30pm. Tickets are available for £20 or £25 on the day.
This years charity is the Reece Winterbottom fund, with the aim of sending the family on a trip to Disneyland.
Reece - a Blades fan from Southall and a Beighton Nursery Infant School pupil, was rushed to hospital after vomiting and complaining of headaches only to discover he had a large brain tumour around his pituitary gland.
Reece’s dad David, 38, who also lost his wife to skin cancer last August, said: “I couldn’t believe it. After everything we went through with Kirsty, then to be told my son had a brain tumour?”
Reece was rushed to theatre where two of the best endoscopic skull base surgeons in the country removed the growth through his nose. Only three or four paediatric neurosurgeons in the country are able to carry out the complicated six-hour operation.
The Children's Hospital, Sheffield not only has specialist surgeons who can perform this surgery but also specialist endocrinologists and nurses to ensure the best treatment for these children.
At four centimetres, the tumour was one of the biggest of this type they had ever seen in a child of Reece’s age. David was told if he had taken Reece to hospital any later he could have died.
“They’re just fantastic. I just didn’t know what to expect - i’d just lost my wife to cancer. When they told me Reece had this mass on his brain I couldn’t believe it."
“They said they could operate and there were only a few people in the country who could do the operation because it’s really rare. It was unbelievable.”
Doctors fitted a drain to remove the fluid building pressure in Reece’s head, and a few days later he was taken into theatre where consultant paediatric neurosurgeon Mr Saurabh Sinha removed the entire tumour.
The craniopharyngioma - a benign tumour wrapped around the pituitary gland at the base of the brain - was able to be extracted through Reece’s nose to avoid cuts to his head.
David, who also has sons Louis, 10 and Charlie, five, said: “We were so lucky to have Mr Sinha. He knew all the circumstances about what had happened with Kirsty, and he seemed delighted when he told me he had got the whole tumour out.”
Tickets can be purchased online or from the Queen and Vine public houses in Mosborough.
For more information see: http://www.mosboroughmusicfestival.co.uk
