Jordan Parsons was just 5 years old when leukemia began eating away at her childhood.
Remission came at 11, but her body had already paid an enormous price: meningitis, septicemia and, years later, liver failure that in November 2021 forced doctors to perform a liver transplant.
Every treatment, every aggressive medication, left a silent mark on her mouth. Today, at 33, Jordan has only about 11 of her own teeth left.
In Nottingham, United Kingdom, her mother Sheryl Parsons is not asking for anything extraordinary: just the money to give her daughter back something as simple as smiling without shame.
Private dental treatment costs around 19.500 pounds, so Sheryl buys lottery tickets week after week in the hope of a lucky break.
Her aunt Karen Priestley also set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise part of that amount.
She survived cancer, an infection that could have killed her and a transplant — and now the battle comes down to something almost no one would think would need rebuilding.