Started raising money for my skydive (which is now on the 26th September). I've been in the RSMA's (Road Safety Marking Association. My dad is a roadmarker) online newsletter and due to this have now raised over £1500 which is amazing! They have also chosen Macmillan to be their charity this year because of what is happening with dad right now which is fantastic. Can't thank the wonderful clients of AJL who have been…
Set up Justgiving page for my skydive. Deposit is all paid, just gotta ring on Monday and sort out an official date for it, excited isn't the word!
Dad's starting his chemo, radiotherapy and avastin on the 9th, think he just wants to get this all started now, sitting round waiting is no good for him. However the tense atmosphere seems to have lessened in the house which is good, we're all managing to get on with…
I'm in a really horrific miserable mood today, and I feel so guilty about it. I don't feel like I have the right to feel like this when it's my dad that is ill and I'm perfectly healthy, everyone else in the family seems to be holding it together just fine. Trying to put on a happy face and keep positive around him so he doesn't get upset but in reality just want to lock myself in a room and break down. I feel like I…
Came back from uni almost a month ago to visit the family and no one was home. Turned out my dad had been taken in for tests as they believed he'd had a stroke but once they did a ct scan they found out that actually he had a tumour on his brain. We all tried to remain positive, he's young (only 49!!) and generally a very healthy man, but from then on everytime we went back to the hospital the news got worse.
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