This is something I've done at home for purposes of providing memories to my children and wife,
given the reality is I'll be
dead well before I'm 50.
It's something I find incredibly hard to do, but I think it's important to show this here in public.
For all the bravado that seems to accompany cancer battlers etc... the reality is that for most
of us yes we are warriors but we are more sufferers.
These pictures will show I was full of energy and very strong before cancer.
I had lots of great experiences
and fun with my family. Whilst I still get some good memories with my family, I would trade it
in an instant to
go back to how I was pre cancer.
Cancer, especially an agressive stage 4 cancer gradulally takes pieces of you away. yes
I am still me but there are many
things I can't do or not to the degree that I use to do them in.
I certainly am a fighter and won't give up, yes I fully intend to and am living with cancer
. However the simple truth is that quality of life is for both my family and I
is immesurably harder since this diagnosis. I think care needs to be taken not to down play
the impacts of cancer
and talk about it as an illness that one handles themselves, the reality is it broadly impac
ts others and is much better
being prevented and caught early than having to live what usually is a much shorter life with it.
