14/01/2026
Good afternoon!
Hope you’re ready for a long post!! 😉
I think it’s about time we gave you an update!
Since Harv’s leg amputation, he has been healing so, so well externally and internally, one thing that has been a big struggle for him is learning to live with just one leg and I’ll be honest it’s been super tough for him, remained in great spirits most of the time. The times where he’s been low is where he’s lost his immediate independence. What I mean by that is just being able to get out of bed and pop to the toilet for instance, go and get himself a drink or something to eat. It’s been a lot mentally for him to accept for the time being.
He’s grateful the cancer has been removed obviously but any time we may need to go out for appointments or a pop down the shops. Just isn’t that simple anymore and it’s a lot to come to terms with. ♥️
Phantom pains have been an absolute basket case to be honest and it took a good month for the pain to be well managed. They started him on amitriptyline when he was in hospital the week after his surgery which ended up being nowhere near enough so they put him on 300mg of gabapentin 3x a day, this still wasn’t doing as much as it could to relieve him of the constant phantom pains or Zaps as he likes to call it! So they upped them to 600mg 3x a day and that seems to have settled things down to a far more comfortable situation.
We came home 6 days after the amputation so had another week at home before round 3 of chemo starting. We go for the first week of chemo on his 3rd round got home on the Friday and he was doing ok all things considered.
He had his check up scans between his op and his 3rd round of chemo, everything came back good on his lungs and his renal functions but his heart was showing signs of struggling a little from the intense chemo so they put him on two heart meds bisoprolol and remipril, nothing permanent just to see if helps support his heart which it has been and hopefully he can come off of them soon. 
2 weeks after his leg surgery he had to be taken in to hospital as his appendix decided to rupture!! 🙄 Not what he needed bless his heart!
So he had to have emergency surgery to remove his appendix. That then lead to a 2 week recovery of the keyhole surgery which meant his chemo had to be put back 2 weeks. He was not happy but not much else we could do you know?
It’s now a week before Christmas, he’s now got to have chemo all throughout Christmas, new year week and the 2nd week into the new year.
He did however manage to turn on the Christmas lights in rayne which was so nice, what a wonderful turnout. Thank you to everyone at the Welsh princess you did amazing! ♥️
I would also like to thank everyone that put on the fundraiser at the Eagle! Honestly under those crappy weather conditions the turnout was absolutely incredible too, so thank you so much for your support there too! ♥️
And also a big shout out to Laney for the tunes once again! And a massive thank you to Nayling Road lights as well for supporting Harvey! ♥️
He’s frustrated and all he wanted was a ‘normal’ Christmas, not going to lie it broke me knowing that he couldn’t just ‘be normal’ for Christmas at least. Cancer is relentless and there are no days off! We are just so grateful for his oncology team and even though it’s a crap situation they hold so much love and compassion at all times and to be honest it really does help so, so much. ♥️
Last week Harvey started his 4th round of chemo! Can you believe it! He’s already smashed 3 rounds with more than a few bumps in the road but he’s here, we’re here! Over half way through his recovery journey now! We’re on the home straight and it feels so amazing to be able to say that. Because in July last year of his diagnosis I was honestly thinking how the f*ck are we going to get through these next 6-8 months..??!!!!
So anyway that pretty much brings us up to date!
We had a meeting with his consultant last week and she expressed how proud and happy she is of Harvey and the progress that he is making and that really did help him and cheer him on that he’s smashing the granny out of this one day at a time! She mentioned starting to get the ball rolling with a prosthetic!! Which is AMAZINGGGGG!!! So hopefully he won’t have to wait too much longer. 😊
This past week we have been down with the lurgies which hasn’t been the kindest! But we’re getting there! He’s got the rest of this week off, next week off then back at it the week after! And get this he had the last of one of his chemos last week so these next few months we don’t have to stay down in london 3 weeks of every month only 2 and one day! How amazing is that! ♥️
One chemo off the list another 2 to go!!
I would like to apologise for the lack of updates, I just mentally haven’t really known what to say or how to word it. Christmas time is a funny old time for quite a few of us and I just didn’t have the mental capacity to come on and update as much as I would have liked to. It’s just a lot, life is a lot in general without having a young adult hit with such a nasty illness.
I’m sure you all understand anyway!! ♥️
I do hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and we are wishing you all an amazing new year, better health, better choices and moving with gratitude and abundance. 🫶🏽✨
This year is OUR year!! Onwards and upwards!!
🥰♥️🫶🏽
If you would like to support Harvey with his cancer treatment and post op amputee support/equipment recovery the link is below ⬇️ or even just a quick share really helps ♥️
https://gofund.me/17ffe44a6
