Sophie Smith

When he was first diagnosed, he was so lovely, when he was first diagnosed, when we walked out of the doctor's office, the first thing he said to me was,

Soph, I'm so sorry that I'm putting you through this."

So he immediately thought of me, which was just incredible, seeing as it was him that was losing his life.

But he said, I never want to hear that... I'm never gonna even think about that.

We are... He said, I'm here, I'm gonna live.

And I'm so glad that he...

did say to me, let's focus on living, let's focus on today rather than worrying about tomorrow.

And I'm so glad we did because instead of one year, we got seven years.

And we got Harvey.

And they were so, you know, even... Ash's treatment was not...

He tolerated it fine.

He had a whole year off work.

And in that year, we had so much fun together with Owen as a six-month-old.

You know, you can't sit around feeling sorry for yourself when you've got a six-month-old crawling around and causing havoc.

And we just...

We were like a little unit and we got on with stuff and we had fun and we focused on living and Ash felt well again.

In fact, sometimes he'd say to me, I feel like a real fraud.

Like, have I really had brain cancer?

I'm fine.

And he was lucky that Charlie did an amazing job with his operation.