Hi, my name is Adam. I’m 30 years old, and my wife Kathleen and i have been together for 14 years. We are parents to three incredible boys aged 12, 8, and 5 — they are our entire world.

At the end of November, our lives changed overnight when Kathleen was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

On her 34th birthday, Kathleen underwent brain surgery. Surgeons were able to remove 30%,as removing more would have caused serious damage. After weeks of agonising waiting, we were first told it was a grade 3 astrocytoma (IDH1 mutant). More recently, we received devastating news that it is actually a grade 4 astrocytoma.

Hearing that word — grade 4 — broke us.

Kathleen is now about to begin extremely intensive treatment: six weeks of daily radiotherapy alongside chemotherapy every single day. This treatment is exhausting and will take a huge toll, but it is necessary, and we are holding on to hope and doing everything we can to fight this.

Our boys are trying to be brave. Our eldest understands more than he should have to at his age. Our younger two don’t fully understand what’s happening — they just know that Mum is tired, that there are hospital visits, and that life feels different now. Every day, Kathleen and I are doing everything we can to keep their world feeling safe and loved while facing fears no parent ever expects to face.

Because of Kathleen’s illness, we are both currently unable to work. We don’t drive, which makes regular hospital appointments even harder to manage. The financial pressure is building fast at a time when our only focus should be getting Kathleen through treatment and supporting our children.

We are asking for help to ease some of that burden, including:

Giving our boys the chance to make special family memories when Kathleen is well enough

Support to help us face an uncertain future without constant financial fear

I have always believed that money doesn’t buy happiness — and I still believe that. But right now, financial support would give us something priceless: the ability to focus on my wife and our three boys without worrying every day about how we are going to survive this.

If you are able to donate, no matter how small, it will make a real difference to our family. If you’re unable to donate, sharing this page would mean the world to us.

Thank you for taking the time to read our story and for supporting us during the hardest chapter of our lives. We will continue to fight — together — for as long as we can.