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Since my husband Ross was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour two-and-a-half years ago, my family knows first-hand the devastating impact this cruel disease has.
He has had two major operations to debulk his tumour – a rare grade 4 primitive neuro-ectodermal tumour (PNET), usually found in children; the last on August 4.
At 31, I’ve had to have conversations with my husband and plan conversations with our little girls Brooke, five, and Texas, three, I’d never imagined.
I don’t want to be an ‘I’, I want to be an ‘us’.
Worst of all, how can I tell my little girls one day the daddy they adore won’t see them grow up?
But my main focus is on the right now. Ross is here now and it’s the now we live in.
This disease can happen to anyone and it does. More than 10,600 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with a primary brain tumour – that’s 29 people a day.
And brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40.
Research is our only hope for a dramatic improvement in the treatment of brain tumours; yet of the £500 million a year spent on cancer research in the UK, only 2 % of that is spent on brain tumours.
That’s why I am helping The Brain Tumour Charity to raise money for research in its mission to defeat brain tumours.
I want something positive to come out of our situation and to help save other people going through the same heartache.
Thank you for your gift
Holly x