A family are trying to raise enough money to buy a new home to help their young son – whose skin keeps falling off.
Little Morgan Bishop suffers from a whole host of skin and health conditions, as well as a life threatening kidney condition.
His parents Dana and Paul are now trying to buy their family a new home so their six-year-old son can finally play outside – in a secure and allergen-free environment.
The six-year-old suffers from eczema, red skin syndrome, asthma, a number of severe allergies and life-threatening Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Nephrotic Syndrome.
The youngster’s persistent itching and constant discomfort means he struggles to regularly attend school or get outside and play with friends.
His mother, Dana Bishop, gave up her job as a family support worker to look after Morgan full-time, and said her son’s condition was “completely debilitating”.
The 37-year-old said: “He can’t do things like go to parties or playdates and he rarely has friends here because he is always itching, distressed and crying.
“It strips away his personality because he is so miserable and doesn’t get any sleep.”
The Bishop family, from Epsom Downs, Surrey, set up a fundraising page called Morgan’s Mission in May last year and have so far raised nearly £50,000 for alternative therapies, vital supplements, skin creams and specialist eczema-friendly bamboo clothing.
The family are now working with an estate agent to raise an additional £40,000 for a house with a garden that would provide them with more space for Morgan to lead a normal life.
She said: “When I asked him if he would like to go on a day trip to Chessington, he said ‘I’m not a little boy that goes out anymore because I’m too tired and poorly’.
“For a six-year-old not to want to go outside and to say horrible things about wanting to die is horrific.
“He is losing his childhood and you can never get that back.”
The family of four, which includes Morgan’s brother Jenson, two, and father Paul, currently live in a flat in Tadworth, Surrey.
Jenson sleeps on a mattress in his parents’ room because he finds it impossible sleep as Morgan is repeatedly woken due to his itching.
Meanwhile Paul, 44 struggles to fit in work around looking after his sons – especially because he doesn’t have a spleen and lack of sleep increases his chances of getting ill.
Dana said: “We are all on top of each other here.
“If we were in a house we would have some space, and if we had a garden that was easily accessible Morgan would be able to get some Vitamin D and some fresh air.
“To get our own home wouldn’t be like waving a wand and curing him, but it would be really life-changing, and take a lot of the stress out of our daily lives.”
Sacha Martin, an estate agent at Sacha Scott in Banstead, Surrey, set up the fundraising page after realising the family would not be able to afford a new house.
She heard about Morgan’s plight last year, and was moved to help the Bishop family after carrying out a valuation in January.
Sacha explained: “I have an eight-year-old son, Sonny, and I can’t imagine anything worse.
“Nobody likes being poorly and that poor little man, he goes through it every day, and the repercussions go throughout the whole family.
“I just felt I had to help.”
