this is great guys thanks so much lets keep it goin xx

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We lost Steven on 22/11/2014

Steven had been suffering from headaches for around 6/8 weeks

Steven wasn't one to complain and was never sick. So when he started to complain of these headaches we knew something was up. He took himself off to the Doctors and told them of his headaches, he came back and had to take Paracetamol and ibuprofen.

He did this for a week and still no better, during this time Steven's behaviour had changed, he became even more annoying than ever before! :-) Steven became very touchy and more in touch with us all. After 1 week, we felt it was important that we attended another appointment with him as he didn't like to talk so we could stress to the doctors how Steven was changing. They ruled out a Brain Tumour as he was not showing the signs they would look for.

He then became worse, he was being sent home from his work as he would just stand at his machine in a daze. He then was signed off from his work. Steven woke one morning and sat on his bed and said he didn't know weather he should go to work today, we told him he didn't need to as he had been signed off for 2 weeks. 

All he wanted to do was sleep, he had stopped eating and drinking, we had to tell him to as he would forget. This all happened in such a  short space of time ad so quickly, we didn't know where to turn or what to do for him.

On the Thursday 19/11/2014 Steven had become very hard to wake. We said enough was enough and we were taken Steven up to A n E. We then had to try and get Steven up out of his bed and say to him

 "come on Bruv the quicker we get you up there the quicker we can get you back home and back into bed"

 He had deteriorated so quickly that evening it was unreal. There was no way we were going to leave without him having a scan and getting to the bottom of it all.

The hospital done there first initial tests, asked his name, where are you, count backwards, which Steven struggled with. They then set alarm bells ringing, they knew something was seriously wrong with him. Within 1 hour they sent him for a CT Scan, which we started to walk down to and Steven could not walk anymore, he was so tired in so much pain, we had to go and get him a chair to push him in. He had his scan and then we waited, waited for the worse possible news anyone could ever imagine. He had a massive tumour, pretty much over the whole of his brain. They tried so hard for him as he was only 34. He then started to have seizures, Thursday night they put him into a coma to try and help his brain, took him up to Intensive Care Unit where they were amazing. But there was nothing they could for him, we told all the family and Steven's friends, everyone rushed to the hospital to say there final goodbyes to him. Steven never woke again. We had our time with him, we got to kiss n cuddle him and tell him how much we all loved him, and then Saturday morning came, where we lost our beautiful Steven.

Our lives have been changed forever, he will always be with us and always be loved. Its so important that this happens in his memory.

If we can raise awareness and just help 1 other person not go through what we went through then it will help us along the way.

We as a family are still in total and utter shock and have been left devastated by what has happened

The if's the buts the maybes and the whys are unreal and always will be

I think I can speak on behalf of my entire family that we walked around in a bubble thinking, it would never happen to me, then it did.

Still in so much disbelief that Steven is gone, but he will live on through each and everyone of us!

And with your help you can make this possible for us all.

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Lots of Love

The Strange Family