So here’s Ben’s story!!

The truth is I’ve very much been through hell and back.

On the morning of the 2nd of June I woke up not being able to talk or walk and to this day I’m not sure how I managed to leave the room I was sleeping in but thankfully I managed to get out by crawling along the floor.

My partner heard a noise and came out to investigate and found me collapsed on the floor having a fit of some description which turned out to be a series of big seizures.

After 1 hour and 40 minutes an ambulance finally arrived and rushed me another 25 minutes to hospital.

The slowest and longest 2 hours and 5 minutes of my life.

It turns out, I’m 43 and have 4 areas of brain cancer, the biggest, being the size of an egg.

3-4 years ago I had a huge problem with itching and I found my memory was a little off, despite going to doctors and skin specialists, I was told I must have dry skin and have too much on my plate which could affect my memory, I now suspect this was the first sign of my symptoms.

The reason for this post is to beg you that if you feel something is off with you, get it checked and double checked. If you get brushed off with things that don’t sound or seem right then please get other opinions.

DONT GIVE UP!

It’s already been 8 days and although I know it’s bad, that’s all I know. I’m still waiting for test results and for the specialist Cancer team to discuss my case which I hope will be next Tuesday.

I’m going to fight this with everything I’ve got and just want to thank some amazing people I’ve met along the way who have supported me.

So now the reason to raise money, Ben doesn’t know what the future holds but with no life insurance it’s going to be difficult to support his family, life can be amazing but just sometimes it can be pretty shit!!! I’m sure you’d agree this is pretty shit!!

Please donate what you can to support one of our own