Life's An Adventure - Let's Go With It

So yes, Leo's and our lives have been turned upside down with this whole battle with cancer, which we now realise will never end due to the whole on-going medical care he will need, even if it doesn't come back!

But what we're starting to realise is this...perhaps we should use the experience, learn from it and kind of go with this journey. There's little else we can do.

We cannot control whether the cancer returns.

We also cannot control what happens if it comes back as that's a given...

But, and here's the thing, we lost sight of the fact we can control what happens whilst he's still clear of cancer. Living with the fear it may come back, even if the stats do say it's 50/50, is paralysing and almost made us go into coping mode...but now we should just go with it.

Simple, huh? I know! But this is a light bulb moment, believe me. And I knew it would happen at some point. It had to.

So what if our son has had cancer, in a way? He doesn't have it right now, at this very moment - as afr as we know...and so let's give the whole journey and experience a shake up.

Let it do what it should do and wake us up from this coma...shake us out of our comfort zone and get moving...what is it we want from life and how can we get there?

So it starts here...this blog is going to be all about hope from now on as after all, isn't that what we should be hanging on to? Hope that cancer does not come back; hope that Leo lives a long and fruitful life, and hope all those we love do too!

And hope that we use this experience to live a life we'd all be proud off. Yes, of course we enjoyed our new life in Spain before the whole cancer thing but shouldn't we know be thinking, literally, life is way too short so let's get living.

And so the most obvious thing to think about is a) what opportunities can we give Leo to ensure he lives a happy life, and b) how can we use this experience to help and have a positive impact on the lives of others?

Answer a) not be afraid of the opportunities and doors which open for us, plus maximise our dreams for him by taking regular and persistent steps to realise those dreams and
b) start the process of raising as much as possible for charities which go a long way towards helping children and their families when their worlds are rocked completely with a childhood cancer diagnosis.

It starts here and so any comments you would like to leave or any initial thoughts for fundraising, from the weird to the funny to the downright tricky, are all most welcome.

Tomorrow's a new day ... bring it on!

Put on those dancing shoes...

Okay so this has little to do with Leo and cancer and all those things but...it did raise a smile and so I thought I'd share it with you.

Great video, beautiful music and glad I stumbled across it...

Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/1211060