Ashley Cain has revealed that his eight-month-old daughter Azaylia could have just days to live amid her leukaemia battle.
The reality star, 30, took to Instagram on Thursday where he shared a heartbreaking video in which he explained what was happening, revealing to fans that they’re taking their little girl back home from hospital to make as comfortable as possible.
Ashley revealed that little Azaylia cannot fly to Singapore for treatment as doctors have discovered tumours throughout her body: in her stomach, liver, spleen and kidneys, in addition to tumours in her brain. And sadly, chemotherapy isn’t working.
Speaking outside of the hospital, the TV star told his followers: ‘Where do I start? Where do I start? A lot has happened. A whole lot. Too much to write in a caption, too much to explain in a picture, so I thought I’d do a video.
‘So last week we had the bone marrow test and the lumber puncture and bloods taken to send to Singapore in the hope that they could create a CAR T therapy to save Azaylia’s life.
‘Then we had to have a CT scan on her head and the results came back the next day, saying that Azaylia’s got two very big tumours on her brain.
‘They also said that the intrathecal treatment that is usually given to treat leukemia in the spine or the brain will not be available, because she has too much pressure with these tumours. And if they tried to even go through the spinal tap it would kill her. At that point, obviously, our world came down.
‘Because obviously, the current chemotherapy that we were doing was for her blood, not the tumours in her brain.
‘Consultants said that they think she’s only got one, two days to live, and it could even be that night. So, we took Azaylia home with the palliative care team and stuff.
‘It was scary. You walk into your little daughter’s room and there’s big oxygen tanks and stuff like that and it was horrible.
‘We took her home. She was on high levels of pain relief and we tried to enjoy every little bit we could, but it was tough. We got through the first night, we got through the second night, but we noticed that Azaylia wasn’t really here properly.
‘As a parental instinct, I told my girlfriend, I said: “Let’s take her off her pain relief”. So we took her off the pain relief and the next morning she was as bright as a button, she had her sharpness back, she was responding to everything.
‘And we sat there, and we thought: “this disease is not killing our daughter. We need to do everything that we can do to save this girl’s life.”
‘And so I rang up the consultant at hospital and said: “We’re coming back in, we’re carrying on with treatment and we’re getting her to Singapore.”
Ashley said he told consultants in hospital that he has always been a fighter and always will be, adding: ‘My daughter is a product of me: through nature, via nurture. That means she’ll be a fighter too.’
The TV star touched on how some parents might be more comfortable at home with their child, but explained that it would ‘break him’ to stay at home knowing his daughter is dying and he’s not doing anything about it.
She’s fought a hard tough fight the whole way through, so I wanna honour that and give her the best chance of survival. Ashley then told his followers that they took Azaylia back into hospital and were exploring treatment options.