'Greatful for the second chance' Katie shares her story of her husband's Melanoma journey
It was back in the midst of COVID, March 2021, when I received the words that changed everything, "your partner has a brain tumour.”
In the weeks, even months before, my now-husband had been complaining of headaches, especially on waking. He’d wince when bending down to change our six-month-old’s nappy on the floor — something we’d always done. I have to admit part of me thought it was excuses. But slowly, his symptoms worsened, and real worry set in.
One ordinary Wednesday morning, I left the house to take our baby to a class. Midway there, I got a call. “Can you come home?” he asked. I walked in to find him in bed, curtains drawn, barely making sense. His head was pounding. I called his sister, a GP, then very swiftly 999. The ambulance came quickly and he was assessed very cleverly via iPad by Queen Square, before being blue-lighted to hospital.
Remarkably, he was onl...
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