Charlotte’s Brain Tumour Journey
18.2.1997 – 24.2.2016
Diagnosis to death: 951 days
Age 19 years 5 days
I normally get the train to Portsmouth, but yesterday I decided to drive a journey I hadn’t made since Miles left Southampton University in 2018. The drive was full of memories of Charlotte and I travelling that same route several times in 2014 to collect him or drop him off
Then I passed the hospice where Charlotte’s body rested after she died. In an instant, memories came flooding back memories I had buried deep because they were simply too painful to revisit. I could suddenly see her lying there again. It is an image no parent should ever carry.
That day, I brought home a memorial stone. I remember clutching it tightly, realising this was it the last time I would ever see Charlotte. Some memories never truly leave you. They simply wait quietly for the moment they return.
Thinking today of all those who already hold their own memory stones, and heartbreakingly, of those who one day will.
At Charlotte’s Lab, researchers are working on all brain tumours, with the hope of helping everyone affected by these devastating diagnosis.
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We also believe strongly in transparency and will always show how your donations have been, or will be, spent.
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