The mark of a good person is how they are when things are bad. I love life but being a mummy is the best bit! Friends laugh about my passion of Andy Murray!
@LBC So pleased he was able to speak publicly for other men. It’s how most women feel too. I recall a man, when I worked for the NHS, telling me this had happened to him and I was the first person he’d told. It’s such a powerful thing to speak up.
Martha’s Rule is to be expanded to A&Es across England.
Patients, loved ones and NHS staff will be able to call a dedicated number to request an urgent review if a patient’s condition is getting worse and they’re concerned it’s not being listened to.
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Thirteen-year-old Jake passed away just two weeks before his 14th birthday after what his mum thought was just severe hay fever turned out to be an aggressive cancer 💔
Before he was diagnosed, Jake's mum Lynsey was giving him antihistamines before school because he had a stuffy nose and watery eyes.
She put his sheer exhaustion down to the warm summer weather and the end of the school term.
But when a swelling appeared across the bridge of his nose, an X-ray at Salisbury District Hospital revealed a mass in his nasal cavity.
Jake was diagnosed with stage 3 fusion-positive alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in July 2023.
He went through nine rounds of chemotherapy and 28 sessions of proton beam radiotherapy in London, but the cancer still spread to his lymph nodes.
When further chemotherapy caused severe seizures that placed him in intensive care, Jake made the brave decision to stop his treatment entirely.
Lynsey said he was incredibly calm about it, simply telling her, "We tried our best."
He even managed to joke that at least he wouldn't have to deal with the cost-of-living crisis.
Jake passed away peacefully at home on April 26, 2024.
Before he died, he gave strict instructions for his own funeral, asking for a blue coffin and for 'Here Comes The Sun' by the Beatles to be played 💙
His final wish to his mum was that he wanted to be well-known and not forgotten.
Lynsey is now honouring that promise by joining forces with a children's cancer charity and studying radiotherapy at the University of Liverpool.
RIP Jake, you won't be forgotten 🕊️
@BBCBreakfast Loved this! My family enjoyed the curling so much - we have booked our first time trying it in Tunbridge Wells this week! Well done to the team!
What a fab series! #TheTraitors
Every series is so exciting and I loved how this one played out! Brilliant traitors! I always feel for those that didn’t make it to the money, but this was fun!
@DefraGovUK
A further large area of Tunbridge Wells ( Southborough ) previously unaffected as not Pembury, without water tonight .
Large scale issues with only one water station not nearby which has run out of water.
Suggest you now deploy govt personnel. To set up water