In two weeks time Ella will have finished her final week of inpatient treatment. It has been a long road and yet weirdly it has also flown by. As the finishing line approaches her desire for normality gets stronger. It seems so close yet so far away. We went and…

I cannot count the number of times that I have been asked that over the last few months. It’s not that I don’t like to be asked it is just a very difficult question to answer. Before the diagnosis if anyone had asked me how I would feel if my…

This week is Ella’s second week of inpatient chemotherapy. This is a shot I have taken from the window of her room. It is amazing how much difference being able to see the outside world makes. In her previous room the window looked out on the wall opposite which made…

A few days after I posted my previous blog it was confirmed that Ella would need to have chemotherapy. This was something we had already prepped for. We were told she would probably need it straight after the surgery. It was tough because we got as far as having the…

Up until May 10th I have to admit that I was quite enjoying lockdown. I’d had enough work coming in over the previous year to have been able to bank a little and there wasn’t a lot to spend it on anyway! …