Sophie Smith

He was... Yeah, he was a fit and healthy young man.

And he just started having headaches.

And eventually, you know, he got checked out and he was diagnosed with a seven centimeter grade four GBM brain tumor when Owen was six months old.

Like, I personally find why me very unhelpful.

I don't think that God or the universe is pointing at me and saying, you know, you...

there's a reason for this.

I think, you know, adversity is part and parcel of being human.

Everybody, you know, it's just life.

And there's nothing, you know, I just don't find why me helpful.

And I find, you know, sometimes people have said to me, I always find this quite strange.

But I have had people say to me, gosh, you know,

you must have done something really bad in a past life for all these bad things to happen.

And I'm just like, not helpful.

I don't find that helpful at all to think that I somehow deserve it.

I don't think that I've done something to deserve it.

But I also don't think that, you know, it's just, it is what it is.

That's right, yeah.

He was given after the operation, which was successful, but when we discovered what kind of cancer it was, we were told that with chemo and radiotherapy, we were looking at one year.

And he was really...

He helped me, actually, towards, you know, he was the one that kind of drove it.