The day I stopped running

05/05/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

A friend had visited the day after Chris was diagnosed. The limbo days when we were waiting for the chest scan results. When we weren’t sure if this would be fightable or not. I was a bit lost. Lack of sleep had made my head fuzzy. I struggled with my emotions spilling over and I […]

When the Tears Came

04/05/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

We knew, before we got the results of the biopsy that Chris had cancer. The GP had told him as much, the tumour had spread indicating strongly that it was malignant. When we went to officially get the results there was no shock about what we were being told, there were no tears or anger. […]

Good weeks after tough.

23/04/2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

It really is a rollercoaster. Life. When you think you have reached the lowest point, you’re hurtling towards a lower dip. When you have experienced a high you’re not sure this particular ride can get much higher, then it does ever so slightly. It’s so fast-moving with twists and turns you struggle to keep up. The […]

Getting by with a little help from our friends

14/04/2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

When our friends first approached me to ask what I thought about them doing something to raise money for us it made me cringe a little. I didn’t want them to think of us in a sympathetic way, didn’t want to be thought of as a family that weren’t able to cope, that needed charity. […]

Waiting

07/04/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’m waiting. I wait in traffic to and from the hospital I wait in waiting rooms with uncomfortable chairs. I wait with him for to have blood taken I wait with him for clinic, to see a doctor, or the nurse. I wait for news I wait with him for a bed We wait for […]