Antonia Sales
Remembering Tonia 2015
Fundraising for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
Story
"There are some people that bring a light so great to the world, that even after they're gone, the light remains."
As some of you know, in October 2013 our beautiful wife and Mum lost her fight with cancer 18 months after her diagnosis. We completed the Marsden March last year, raising a jaw-dropping £4,552! The support we received was incredible and we are so happy that everyone donated and helped us say thank you to this amazing charity and remember such an beautiful and inspiring lady. We've decided to do the Marsden March again this year to hopefully raise more money for The Royal Marsden and remember our brave and beautiful Tonia.
16 months after loosing my Mum her light continues to shine on every thing that we all do. It is still incredibly hard every day to not be able to tell and talk to Mum, but yet I am always sharing it with her as she is in all that I do. How can it not be when she invested her life into mine, giving me everything that she had every single day. It is horrible not being able to text every hour like I did when I went away for Uni (which did eventually get on Mum's nerves :P), but yet I don't need to ask for her advice because she's always in my heart, I know what she'd say or do and that's the light that leads me on.
Last year we wrote on this page about Mum's story and I'll share it again now below.
Antonia x
We hate saying that Tonia lost her battle with cancer because words can not describe what she was like during this time. She was incredibly brave, strong, positive and wanted to to continue being the amazing woman she was for as long as possible. She did not give up trying to be with us forever, even at the end. Sometimes we feel so angry that our kind, caring, funny, happy wife and Mum had to be taken away, she deserved to shine forever and to be loved by all those that love her. And then we also think back to The Royal Marsden and all the other brave, amazing people and their families who are fighting cancer and being separated too soon.The Royal Marsden could be seen as a sad place filled with sick people, but it's not. It's a place where the Doctors and nurses and all staff do all they can to make you better, help you carry on and fight. Our Mum could not thank the people who helped her enough, (she was always buying them gifts to try to show a fraction of her gratitude) and nor can our family. They also helped us go on one last holiday. The place is filled with real-life angels!!
When people to say us "You're so strong", we think how could we not be with the wife and Mum that we had. We can not describe what it is like but my Mum would hate it if we sat and gave up because that was something she never did and nor did the staff at the Royal Marsden.
Cancer is horrible but we need to do what our wife and Mum did literally and stick our fingers up to it! So please donate! And also help us say thank you (although we can never show our gratitude enough) to The Royal Marsden and all the amazing work they do for cancer patients.