Category: Guest Authors
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Alastair’s Story: Part One – Crossing a Threshold
In this four-part series, Ali Travis, who was diagnosed with a high-grade glioma at just 32, shares his beautifully written and, somehow, positive experience of coming to terms with his diagnosis.
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Alastair’s Story: Part Two – A robot called Stealth
In his second guest blog post, Ali Travers describes coming to terms with his diagnosis and explaining it to his loved ones.
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Alastair’s Story: Part Three – A Battle We’ll Lose
In the third of a four-part series, Ali Travis, who is living with a high-grade glioma, shares his experience of coming to terms with his diagnosis.
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Alastair’s Story: Part Four – Best Year of my Life
In the last of this four-part series, Ali Travis explains how being diagnosed with cancer taught him that “a good life cut short, is still a good life.”
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Madelaine’s Big Bake Memories – Guest post by Madelaine Powell
Inspired by The Big Bake, read Madelaine’s thoughts as she looks back over the last decade of her mum’s brain tumour diagnosis.
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Alan’s story – Guest post by Alan Palmer
In this guest post, scientist and entrepreneur Alan Palmer talks about his career studying the human brain and its various disorders along with the value of gifts in Wills.
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Three Peaks Cycle Challenge 2023
Follow Richard and his friend Will as they take on the ultimate Three Peaks Challenge in memory of Richard’s mother, who passed away from a brain tumour in 2019.
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Being a neuro-oncology nurse – Guest Post by Ingela Oberg
In this guest post, Ingela Oberg, an adult neuro-oncology nurse manager at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, explains why she went into medicine and what her role entails.
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For Laura – Guest post by Hannah Kinsell
In this guest post, Hannah reflects on the friendship she shared with Laura Nuttall.
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Driving and brain tumours
We know from speaking to our community, that the legalities and processes of driving once you have a brain tumour diagnosis is a topic that is raised frequently and is understandably, a source of frustration for many people. We hope that this guide will provide some guidance and support to help make this as smooth as possible.