Six Down

07/05/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

It was daunting when we first found out that Chris’ treatment would take at least 12 months. Just think about what you can fit into a year, 365 days, what you can plan for, what you can look forward to. As the New Year bells rang signalling the start of 2016 there wasn’t the usual […]

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. […]

Pinch me I must be dreaming!

30/04/2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I never dreamed I would ever be writing this post. A post about being shortlisted for a blogging award. A blogging award! I have to keep saying it, reading my blog name in the list, checking they’ve not removed it and this was all some kind of mistake, just to make sure it’s still true! My little […]