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BBC<\/p>\nAndy Martindalein Telford<\/p>\n
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Joffrey Watson heard Dulcie had rung her treatment bell and wanted to do something for her <\/p>\n
A nine-year-old girl who rang the “all-clear” bell earlier this year, after treatment for cancer, has had a sculpture carved specially for her to celebrate.<\/p>\n
Dulcie, from Telford, was diagnosed with a stage four neuroblastoma<\/a> in 2021 and underwent chemotherapy, surgery and two sets of clinical trials<\/a>, and rang the bell in March at Birmingham Children’s Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n When local chainsaw sculptor and artist, Joffrey Watson, heard her story, he decided to make something special to go in her garden.<\/p>\n “I got a bit upset listening to it, so I was like, right, I’ll ring in [to the BBC] because I can do something – I can do a carving,” he said.<\/p>\n “She’s a month younger than my daughter, it’s that close an age it resonates with you more, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n “That could’ve happened to me, that could’ve happened to my daughter, [Dulcie] deserves something.”<\/p>\n Dulcie said bears were her spirit animal because they were brave <\/p>\n Surgeons removed a 1.2kg (2.6lb) mass from Dulcie in 2022.<\/p>\n However, it was found to have spread, and the family had to turn to clinical trials as chemotherapy was not able to reduce it.<\/p>\n Her mum, Debbie, said they got the happy news that there was “no evidence of disease” in mid-February.<\/p>\n “It’s a day we never thought we were going to see,” she said.<\/p>\n “She’s missed so much of what she calls her normal life.”<\/p>\n The sculpture is of a bear, inspired by one that appears in the children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.<\/p>\n ‘Her spirit animal is a bear’<\/p>\n “I was hoping that Dulcie would ask for a really nice birdhouse, a bath, a really nice bench,” she told the BBC.<\/p>\n Debbie added: “She said that her spirit animal is a bear.<\/p>\n “A bear represents being brave and being fierce and being strong, even though sometimes you may not feel like it.”<\/p>\n She said that Dulcie was still on a small treatment, which would continue into the new year, but added that 2026 would be a chance for her to be a “normal child”.<\/p>\n Mr Watson created the sculpture within a few hours in Dulcie’s garden with wood donated by the nearby Apley Estate.<\/p>\n “There is very little process, way less than anybody would ever hope for,” he said.<\/p>\n “I’ll turn up and the lump of wood is in front of me, I’ll envisage it in my head and that’s it, I just cut lumps off with the chainsaw until it’s the right shape.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Martindalein Telford BBC Joffrey Watson heard Dulcie had rung her treatment bell and wanted to do something…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-147302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d8b37ea0-c60a-11f0-bac6-252b1f2b7e52.png.webp.webp\")
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