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So a full on week. Started with my eldest Joe and I visiting the Brain Tumour Research Centre of excellence at Queen Mary’s London Town. To place some plaques on the wall of hope. Now through you’re generosity we had 9 plaques to place. Each plaques representing £3000 that’s a days research. I chose toContinue reading “Emotional week”

I haven’t blogged for a while, been a bit under the weather with a cold and change of meds. It’s amazing when you’ve got a terminal diagnosis how you can get anxious about the slightest change in your body. So am I wearing glasses now because I have a brain tumour, or because I’m 50Continue reading “Social Community”

Hello all I’ve been doing my 10000 steps a day for brain tumour reseach and today everyone was full off sadness and anger https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22fundraiser_campaign_id%22%3A322066129792805%7D&path=%2Ffundraiser%2F&_rdr Sadness because for the 2nd time in as many weeks we’ve lost another member of our community and yet again they were only 5, Nate follows Isla to beautiful children whoContinue reading “Angry and sad”

So this week started with my going to Andy Bouchers funeral who died from a similar cancer to mine, the picture below is how I will always remember Andy. The man I met up recently still had the same life in his eyes, but has body was racked with the pain of cancer. What surprisedContinue reading “Tough week”

All the way through high school in Stafford the back 4 of the football team more or less stayed the same. Me at left back the short one, playing off the wrong foot. The centre backs Stephen Wright and Andy Boucher, Steve will always be the tall lanky one , Andy the solid stopper. PatrickContinue reading “Bad start to the year, Better end to the week”

So I think it is fair to say that this was not part of my Christmas plans. Nice quiet one with Jen on Christmas Day Then down to Stafford for us all to do the first Bergin traditional Stafford Boxing Day since Mum died as one, symbolically this was the first year that one ofContinue reading “One last hospital visit 2021”

Today would have been Lewi’s 22nd Birthday he died two and half years of another form of Brain disease, we miss him everyday. The jewel of his mother heart, She will be perpetually broken. If you’re ever low or unsure what to do, find someone and ask Well it’s possibly because of a combination. AContinue reading “It’s the most troublesome time of the year”

So a while back i agreed to to feed 50 people for an evening for the brilliant Toft Tavs captains dinner Turns out whilst I’m still me I’m not the man I was. I struggled with organisation and if not for Jen doing lists for me and just generally being a pillar of calm andContinue reading “Mild panic attack”

I’ve spent a couple of days in the great company of Brian Caplan and his brother who I embarrassingly have already forgotten the name of (blame the tumour Bergin, no one calls that out ) It’s been a really good reminder that I’m a lucky man. I’m 50 and have already outlived my original prognosis.Continue reading “Brains trains and new friends”

It’s very sad but we seem to be divided into mask v mask which bizarrely seems to have similar Venn diagram to leavers v rejoiners I’m on a train to London about 50/50 mask. What I don’t get its slightly inconvenient but it’s about being a member of a wider community. The 6 people surroundingContinue reading “This is the age of mask v mask”