11/09/2026
Second week of Mason’s specialised proton beam radiotherapy completed ✅
The last 2 weeks have dragged. Being away from home for so long under these kind of circumstances is really hard. We miss our home, our own beds, our family, friends, our normality, our safe places to go when the world feels a little too much, and just being somewhere that feels familiar.
Manchester has had to become our home for now, but I keep reminding myself… home is who you are with, not where you are. ❤️
And as long as I have my boy with me, we’ll get through this together.
Mason is still handling his treatment relatively well. The side effects have definitely started to progress now, which is expected as we reach the end of his second week of active treatment. The tiredness and fatigue is creeping in more, sickness, skin sensitivity, headaches, and we’re starting to see more of what six weeks of daily radiotherapy is asking of his body.
But he is still doing it.
Still defying odds.
Every single day.
Mason has an extra treatment this Sunday, which means he only has tomorrow as his one day of rest before he’s back into hospital on Sunday. Then it’s straight through to the end of next week. It’s going to be a tough one.
We’re now 10 treatments down… 20 to go.
I know the weeks ahead are probably going to get harder, and I know we have a long way still to go, which really sucks, but we’re taking it exactly how we have to, one day, one treatment and one step at a time.
I’m so incredibly proud of you Mason. You’re doing something so unbelievably hard, and somehow you still continue to face it with that amazing smile of yours. 💜💜💜