A FUND-RAISING campaign is underway to bring a teenager, who has been crippled by a rare form of cancer, back home to Tywyn.

Elisha Carter, 17, was struck down by the disease earlier this year. It has ravaged her spine, kidneys and lungs and left her paralysed from the waist down.

The former Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn pupil has spent the 20 weeks since her diagnosis in hospital undergoing several chemotherapy sessions and battling her condition, an undifferentiated soft tissue sarcoma.

“I had been having severe back pain and shortness of breath for months,” a brave Elisha told the Cambrian News.

“Shortly after my 17th birthday in March, I suddenly collapsed and was blue-lighted to Bronglais Hospital where they did a CT scan and found I had a collapsed vertebrae at the top of my back between my shoulder blades resulting in paralysis from my waist down.

“The following morning I was transferred to University Hospital Of Wales, Cardiff where I underwent surgery to remove a tumour from my spine.

“I was also told at this time that I had further tumours on my lung and kidney.

“I then spent four weeks on the spinal ward before being transferred to the oncology ward at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, where I am now.

“The physiotherapists have said that, hopefully, I will be able to walk again after physio but it will be a very long road and it could take years.”

The community is now banding together to raise money to adapt Elisha’s home so she can spend more time surrounded by her loved ones.For more information or to donate toward’s Elisha’s cause, please visit https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/clare-swiftSee the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News