Day 65: Decisions Decisions – Clinical Trials
Clinical trials come with a huge morale and personal dilemma for our family. Do you opt in or out? What is the right decision? Not an easy choice to make.
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Santa, School, Sausage Casserole and Wet Wipes
There is a sentence I never imagined I’d write… “Santa, School, Sausage Casserole and Wet Wipes” But they are all connected in some way to the last four days. When you’re battling cancer four...
Ways You Can Support a Family Fighting Cancer
There are so many way you can support a family fighting cancer. Over the last month we’ve had so much support from friends, family, work colleagues and complete strangers. Everyone has asked “what do...
30 days of cancer…
I can hardly believe we’ve been battling cancer for 30 days. Some days it feels like we’ve been doing it for a life time. Other days I feel so new and useless. It is...
Day 26: Hair, Christmas Lights, Pirates, and Tears
It is safe to say that after i’ve written this post I will be heading straight to bed…I would put this off but I can’t. My head is full of the last 48hrs, my...
Day 24: Bilbo’s Wall of Love
Day 24 After some rough days, today has been another good day. It involved a trip to Oxford for round four of chemo. It also involved a chat with the physio and some car...
What do Ellie Goulding, Wham, LEGO and potties have in common?
They all provoked a very emotional outburst… …today has been an emotional roller coaster. There were no hospitals, no treatments, no tantrums about medicine. Instead it was cancer breaking our hearts…and then utter kindness,...
Living Our Best Life: Legoland Discovery Centre Birmingham
We didn’t tell the boys we were going to Legoland Discovery Centre Birmingham until we were about 25mins away. I didn’t want to get anyone’s hopes up let alone Bilbo. And today has been...
Week 4: Our new normal
Normal…what is that? I don’t think we’ve felt remotely normal in the last 4 weeks. We don’t know what our new normal is and won’t for some time. I talked about my frustration with...
The Wondrous Road Ahead
Grieving A very wise friend of mine, sent me a few messages on whatsapp this week. What she said really resonated with me. It made me understand that the process we’re going through is...
