One last toast

Sometimes, the course of your life can hinge on a single day. One such day in April 2023 was both my bleakest-ever moment, and the day my husband proposed. It was a Friday afternoon when the consultan

As my wife carried our little one, something more sinister was growing inside me

B efore you came into my world, I ...

Reaching for my wife Lisa’s hand, the consultant’s words just swam around my mind. ‘I’m afraid you have ovarian cancer. You only have three to five years left to live.’ It was March 2015, and with tho

I was waiting to meet a very special person, but losing one too

Sue Hall, 68, lives near Leeds, with her husband David, 76. They have a son and a daughter, Becky, 34, who was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer last year. When Becky and Mark [her husband] said