Dying girl sends out online plea to band

  • 01/09/2016
Georgia Buckingham (Givealittle)
Georgia Buckingham (Givealittle)

A Kaitaia teenager has had her dream to see her favourite band live brutally crushed after her cancer returned.

Georgia Buckingham, 16, was told she was in remission last year but early this year, the cancer came back.

Despite a bone marrow transplant from a foreign donor, she's been told she only has weeks to live.

Georgia had tickets to see pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer live in Sydney in October. But with the devastating news, her Sydney trip has been moved up - except now she can't see the band as they're still touring in the US.

Now her friends are trying to bring the popular Australian group to her.

They've started a Twitter campaign, #5SOSNoticeGeorgia, and are trying to get it trending in the hopes it will get the band members' attention.

"We have been told to live life to the fullest and make this trip to Sydney the trip of a lifetime for Georgia," Georgia's sister, Hayley, wrote on her Givealittle page.

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