Daisy’s fight: Kiwi preschooler receiving treatment in US after a third of her skull was reattached

Three-year-old Daisy Nicholls has had a large section of her skull reattached after it was removed to access a brain tumour. The section was reattached in a successful six-hour surgery at Starship children’s hospital in Auckland. The preschooler is now in Florida undergoing intensive proton therapy to shrink the remaining neuroblastoma.

A 3-year-old girl with a rare and aggressive brain tumour is now having specialist proton therapy in Florida after surgery in Auckland to reattach a large section of her skull. Daisy Nicholls is in her third week of treatment in the US and “smashing it” according to her mum Riss Nicholls, who has been by her side throughout the tough sessions. “Our girl has been her usual amazing self with the only challenge trying to keep her nil by mouth for so long every day,” Nicholls said.



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