In August 2024, I was diagnosed with secondary triple negative breast cancer with metastases to my lungs.

Since then, life has become a cycle of scans, treatments, side effects and difficult conversations, all while trying to hold onto normal family life with my husband, our two young children (aged 5 and nearly 3), and Betty our Labrador, who still gets us outside even on the hardest days when we want to hide!

After multiple rounds of different chemotherapies, my most recent scans in February 2026 showed further progression of the cancer, meaning my current treatment Trodelvy, has stopped working.

I have been seen by a specialist in London who applied for access to a drug called Olaparib. Although it is not routinely funded for my type of cancer because I do not carry the BRCA mutation, my RAD51c genetic mutation means this treatment could still offer real hope.

Unfortunately, compassionate funding was declined.

This means we are now facing the devastating reality of privately funding treatment ourselves at a cost of approximately £6,000 per month. At present, there are no better clinical trial options available nationwide.

We are trying to do everything we can to have more quality time — more school runs, more bedtime stories, more birthdays, more family adventures, more ordinary moments like playing referee to the kids bickering and memories that my children will carry forever.

I turn 39 this weekend, and I still have so much life I want to live with the people I love.

If you are able to donate, share this page, or simply keep our family in your thoughts, it would mean more than we can ever express.