A brave Alexandria girl battling an extremely rare brain tumour will hear this week when she and her family will travel to Manchester for lifesaving treatment.

Resilient Rosie Brown, who turns two next month, has bounced back from further brain surgery this week following an operation on Tuesday.

We previously reported how Rosie was diagnosed with an anaplastic ependymoma on March 26 this year after months of unexplained sickness spells.

Rosie’s dad Gary told the Lennox Herald this week: “A doctor in Manchester picked up that there was something else on the scan and they said the best action was surgery.

“On Tuesday she went in and we were told that she might be in all day, but we got a call at 12pm and they managed to get her out straight away.

“She has come through the operation and is standing on her feet. She is walking a bit off balance but not back to where she was after the last operation.

“She is bouncing back from everything amazingly.”

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When doctors found the rare brain tumour in March, the tot was immediately rushed for emergency surgery where a drain was put into her head to prevent a seizure.

Surgeons then managed to remove the majority of the tumour in a second operation, but found that the tumour was attached to her brain stem meaning specialist proton beam therapy treatment would be required.

Despite initially believing the family would have to travel to Florida, doctors later decided Rosie would be eligible for a facility in Manchester.

However, a further complication arose when experts there picked up on a further 3mm of tumour.

Rosie has been back at home in Tullichewan with Gary and mum Alex and seven-year-old brother Rhuari over the weekend, and the family are now waiting to hear when treatment will begin in Manchester.

Gary said: “We spoke to the oncologist and now Rosie’s case has to go back to the start of the clinical trial.

“We had wanted her to go to Florida at the start because we had heard good things about that hospital.

“Rosie will be the first from the hospital to go to Manchester because it only opened in January.

“But we know other children from Scotland have been already and children from down south are treated there as well.

“She needs to go down to get a helmet fitted before she can get the proton beam therapy started.”

If Rosie had been sent to Florida for the eight-week treatment, the family would have been forced to decide the best option for her older brother Rhuari, who is at primary school.

Gary said: “Manchester will be better for us as well because it means Rhuari can stay in school and be brought down at the weekends.”

We previously reported how the community have been rallying behind the whole family, raising thousands to support them through the difficult months ahead.

A JustGiving page has raised over £16,000 with many organising parties, sponsored events and raffles adding to the total.

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