Brave Ashlee Easton has third vaccine treatment

Ashlee Easton, together with parents Lisa and Donald, made a mercy dash across the Atlantic last month only days before the United States went into lockdown.

Ashlee, who is now 13, was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma aged just six and has relapsed twice since then, most recently in November 2018.

Her family have been frantically fundraising for the £239,000 needed to allow the Braes High pupil to receive a bivalent vaccine in New York which could prevent the cancer from returning.

They had raised over half the money and heard she had an appointment to get the vaccine.

Flights were booked and the family were preparing to fly out when they received a “devastating” email from a New York clinic saying due to coronavirus they were no longer accepting new patients from abroad and Ashlee’s appointment had been cancelled.

But when they saw a window of opportunity to get her to the United States before the shut down of flights they decided to go.

The youngster has now had three doses of vaccines and is recuperating in the apartment the family are living in.

Updating family and friends of Facebook, Lisa wrote: “She is doing really well otherwise and we have been so pleased she has had this chance to receive the vaccine.

“Thanks for all the lovely messages we have been receiving. Stay safe everyone.”

Ashlee was also given an unexpected treat when McVitie’s sent her a box of Digestive biscuits so she and her parents could enjoy a “taste of home” during their stay in New York.