My father was diagnosed with terminal cancer and wrote a blog to "Imagine" the future of the child: I am afraid that my daughter will forget me
36-year-old father Adam Cattermole in the UK has a happy family, but he was diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer in August 2019. , He sadly described the world as falling apart. Picture taken from Facebook "Emma Cattermole"
After being diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer in August 2019, the 36-year-old father of the United Kingdom, Adam Cattermole, decided to start writing a blog to record his own mental journey and what he would like to say to every child in the future if.
Catmore and his wife Emma (Emma Cattermole) have been married for 4 years, and they have 3 children, namely, 6-year-old Harry (Harry), 4-year-old Jacob (Jacob) and 17-month-old Luo West (Rosie). When he was driving to work on a certain day in August this year, he suddenly felt severe pain in his abdomen. After an examination at the hospital, he found that there was a tumor in his intestines, which had spread to the liver and lymph nodes. He said: “When the doctor announced that I was suffering from cancer, my whole world seemed to have no voice. The bad news overwhelmed me. I began to want to tell my wife and children.”
wanted to write down what he wanted to say to his children. , And what he thought, Catmore decided to start blogging. He wrote above: "My emotions are very complicated, can I find it (colorectal cancer) earlier? It may not be possible because I have no symptoms. Why did it choose me? What did I do wrong? This list can continue Write it down, I will come up with a new list every other day, but these are the negative thoughts that I have to deal with every day.”
Catmore imagined the future of three children in the latest article, “I will Can’t see them playing at school, can’t see them on the sports field, can’t care for their knees when they fall, can’t see their first girlfriend, can’t comfort them when they break up, can’t see their exams Going to college and buying the first car." And what he worries the most is his daughter Rosie, because she may not remember herself at all, "she may only remember me with photos."
Emma has already Set up a special page on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe, hoping to raise enough funds to arrange professional cancer treatment for Catmore and to extend his life as much as possible.