Well where to begin, I had a seizure on Nov 28th 2008 and ended up waking up in my front garden after walking home from work. A short stay in the local hospital and a few scans later I was told I had what looked like a low grade brain tumour.

To cut a long story short I went into hospital on January 27th for a craniotomy to be done on the 28th. The surgery took longer than expected and I had a bigger scar than I had expected, 30 staples across the top of my head. However, 26hours after surgery I was back home with my family, something I am pretty proud of!

First diagnosis was a grade II oligodendroglioma but after seeing the oncologist 4 days later a different diagnosis had come back from a seperate lab in Cambridge making it a grade III - big difference!

I have to go and have mask made and more scans before I start radiotherapy on our return from Stockholm.

Its all been a bit of a bad dream except theres no happy ending to this one.

However, I am NOT defeated and have lots to live for - so thats what I am doing.

I haven't worked since November but do plan to get back after radiotherapy in the meantime, I look forwrad to getting out (with a chaperone) with my camera.

Thats all for now folks x