Dylan was born on the 15^th of December 2001.  At10 months old Dylan was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. 

During the next 14 months he spent most of his time in and out of hospital having chemotherapy and finally a bone marrow transplant. 

Sadly the transplant failed and Dylan left us on the 21^st of December 2003.

This Charity has been set up in Dylan's Memory, called THE DYLAN MASON MEMORIAL TRUST with the UK Registered Charity Number 1109339. The main object is to help other parents whose children are suffering from AML or Leukaemia. 

The money raised will be used for educating parents about this illness including all the treatment options. We will also help by making sure that their stay in hospital is as comfortable as possible by providing the Hospital wards with electrical and recreation equipment. Also assisting parents and families to visit children at their place of treatment. 

The Dylan Mason Memorial Trust
27 St Aidans Street
Stoke-on-Trent 
ST6 5HQ
United Kingdom

PHONE 01782 816 539
MOBILE 07765 061 156

If we were asked if we could look into the future and saw the day when we were sat in a room to be told Dylan had beat the illness and was in remission I would have said NO! Because to me cancer meant death, but as you don't understand the success rate it is such a shock.
When we were told Dylan had gone into remission it was the best day of our lives. We could start to get life back to normal as best as we could.

We had to attend clinic on a weekly basic and then went to monthly. The hardest part about seen the doctors was them telling us that it was still at a high risk of coming back and we found that hard knowing what we would have to go through again and see Dylan suffer the way he did, they also told us if it didn't come back in the 1st year of been in remission then it probably wouldn't.

I wanted to know what Dylan's chances of having kids were I know what a long way a head I was thinking but I needed to know. They said because he was such a young baby he had a small chance and there was a test he could have when Dylan was old enough to want to know.

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Dylans Life

Dylan was born on the 15th December 2001, what a joy to have. As the time went by he was coming up to 10mths old and things didn't look right with Dylan he wasn't eating or drinking and he always ate a lot he was a big baby for his age.

Dylan had a lump on his forehead and his eye swelled up, we took him to the doctors but they keep telling us he had an infection in his eye and he had banged his head which would go down in a few days, well a week later it hadn't and his eye was so bad that he couldn't open it. He was taken back to the doctors on the Friday (25th October) who then decided to send him the hospital.

We arrived at the hospital at teatime and after many doctors looked at him they decided to keep him in for observation and told us he would be home tomorrow. Well as we arrived at the hospital Saturday morning we were about to be told a parents worst nightmare. We weren't allowed to see Dylan until the doctor had seen us, she took us in a room sat us down and told us the blood test they took last night came back early this morning and they were 99.9% sure Dylan had leukaemia.

They had arranged transport for us to be taken to Birmingham children's hospital. Our lives were turned up-sided down it felt as though everything we had, had been put in a box turned upside down moved from side to side and tipped back out again.

We arrived at Birmingham thinking we are about to lose the most important thing in our lives, by 8.00pm that night we were told Dylan had A.M.L and he would have to face 6 months of high dose chemo. That night we couldn't sleep and kept going over in our heads what we had done wrong, was it us? That was something we had to know, if it was us that had caused it, I asked the doctors but they said no but you will always feel as though it was. We should be able to protect our children and not let them go through this.