
Need your help! Terminal Brain cancer!! Wow! That sucks!
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Hi everyone, I'm Simon, a 54 year old guy in Surrey, now married to my wife, we were engaged for 7 years, to the beautiful and unbelievably strong, Zoë, and I have 2 kids, Raphael, 21 years old who will plays rugby professionally (Hopefully in France soon as frankly it pays more and is better than here!) and Gabriel, 16 who is a computer nerd, complete opposite to his brother about to do computing at College and I have an 85 year old mum, Pam, who had a very rough 2024 and 2025 herself (Its like a crappy competition), who i'm looking after, but who still, unbelievably, has the mental ability to deal with me!
I did a dry January and did an 8 mile walk everyday to get fit, but every day on the walks I had a "Dizzy" spell. I put this down to a diet, daily exercise and no booze. Then in February, the spells kept happening, so i decided to do an MRI. I did an MRI private scan, the cheapest I could find in London, just for my own sanity. and the following morning I had a phone call from the GP and was ordered to meet them asap. I was told I had a brain tumour, level 2. This was Wednesday. On Friday I went to hospital and after another MRI was told it was level 4, and terminal, game over.... I spent a week in St Peter's hospital, then in March I spent a week in St George's Hospital and had surgery. Unfortunately, they couldn't remove the whole tumour, just 80%, so i'm doomed apparently, I have my SR1, hence why I am doing this fundraising, as I have to look after my family who I love more than everything, and the time remaining is short and i am determined to fight and get more than a year out of this, targeting 5+ years.
I'm so in love with my wife and family, they make me feel amazing, and it hurts so much to know that without any income now, my life could end quickly. So, all weekly government money will go to the family and all money raised will only go to surgery (Current surgery needs £40k until the end of December. We have identified a number of surgeons (USA, Brazil and Europe) who have done extremely well in dealing with "Left Temporal Glioblastoma", Level 4 (The worst..) and extended life by 5+ years, which frankly I want and so does my family and I still have the mental capacity to work, so I can earn and save for my family and their future, and more importantly, spend time with them for years, not months if I can get get myself in a woking position for early in the new year if possible, so please do help!
I spent my whole life raising charity funds, volunteering and trying to be just a good person, never expecting the same for me, but here we go!
Thank you all and please contact me at anytime. Lets keep this going x
Organizer and beneficiary

Simon Hollister
Organizer
England
Zoë Porter
Beneficiary