23/04/2025
Long overdue update as to why I’ve been extremely quiet on here and with my business in general. My health has been deteriorating over the past 9-12 months, I’ve copied and pasted the update from my personal page. It’s a long post so maybe grab a coffee and take a seat ☕️ 🛋️.
“The News nobody wants to hear – Another long post as you all know I like to write war & peace.
Just over 2 weeks ago I received the worst news regarding my health.
Since my last neuro surgery end October 2024, my tumour Lee has been having the time of his life in my head, a lot like when we were still in contact with each other.
Basically the tumour has grown like mad, left, right and centre into more hard to reach, life threatening places causing more pain, nerve damage and the loss of my right eye amongst other annoying symptoms.
The most distressing thing to take in is that during my last meeting with the Neuro Oncologist at The Christie I was told that any treatment I have going forward will be palliative and that my time on this Earth could be over in as little as 12 months.
Well, my defiant, determined self is not going to give up without a fight! I am currently awaiting a date for surgery to remove my eye, all the eye structures, diseased bone and whatever tumour they can access through the eye socket without causing too much more damage. There will also be a skin graft to be re-fit where my eye was. Following that I will then be fit for a prosthetic eye, they’ve already matched the colour for me but I was very tempted to choose a cats eye or something like that but you’ll have to wait and see what I go for 😊!
Once recovered from surgery I will then go to The Christie for more intense radiotherapy.
The tumour has crossed over to my left side now and there is no option to operate or direct RT to this side due to the even higher risks that come with it.
Being given this news made me re-evaluate things a lot, to the point that I have given up work completely to spend time with my loved ones and do the things I love which is be in the outdoors, out in nature. For a workaholic like me this has been hard to come to terms with on top of the sh*tty 12 month prognosis.
I am still relatively fit and able, up and about, walking but not far, often going back to bed during the day as I’m so tired all the time – tired doesn’t cut it, fatigued sounds more fitting.
I will continue to get up and out for walks, maybe some wild swims up the Lakes, a trip up to see family at the top of Scotland, possibly a trip over to my huge family in Ireland (depending on transportation). I will keep doing this for as long as I can, as long as my body will allow.
Anyway, I’m trying my hardest to remain positive and am already taking lots of amazing natural vitamins & supplements but have recently been introduced to some medication which I can’t mention but lets just say it’s going to be MY SAVIOUR! SO MOTE IT BE!!.
Aside from all the doom and gloom my amazing sissy pissy Laura set up a Go Fund Me to raise funds for me as I’ve had to give up work to fight this thing. I had absolutely no clue she was doing this for me – I could not believe it!
I’ll be forever in her debt, I can’t thank all of my donors enough, I just can’t get over how much everyone has donated, people I know, people I’ve never met –
YOU ALL SO MUCH ###.”
