THE family of a six-year-old Pen Llyn schoolgirl will spend Christmas at her hospital bedside after hearing the “difficult” news she requires further major brain surgery.

And Heather and Geraint Hughes were told by doctors at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool on Tuesday that their daughter Evie could need more surgery when she’s older.

Evie already received surgery in early October after the shock discovery of a brain tumour which has made her blind in one eye.

Ysgol Morfa Nefyn pupil Evie has returned to school, but will spend Christmas in Alder Hey after her parents were told that their least favoured option, more invasive brain surgery rather than chemotherapy, would be needed before she would be able to undergo proton therapy in Florida.

“She is going to need the bigger operation where the doctors will try and take as much of the tumour out as they can,” Mrs Hughes told the Cambrian News this week.

“Then we are looking at heading out to America towards the end of January, or start of February. I am dreading it because our Christmas will be in Alder Hey. But at least we have got a plan in place now.

“Evie will go back in on 13 December for surgery on 14 December. Then it will be three to four weeks, hopefully, before she can come home for a couple of weeks before going to America."

The local community has banded together to help raise money for Evie to head to the United States for pioneering surgery.

To help Mr and Mrs Hughes, donate at: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/angela-jenkinson

Read the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News