We sent out bulletins about how Danny and the rest of us were getting on – it saved phone calls and repeating the details many times.
- July 2nd 1995 After a fairly normal couple of years, we find he has metastases (aged 3).
- July 12th 1995 Start of chemotherapy; trips to Burger King with a drip up.
- July 31st 1995 Bad reaction to chemo, then Dan looking better but cross with being treated
- August 22nd 1995 2nd chemo, then back into hospital with an infection
- September 21st 1995 3rd chemo, losing hair, holiday, and starting school
- October 28th 1995 Chemo becoming routine, Thunderbirds arrive, Rosie breaks her arm
- December 5th 1995 More chemo, facing stem cell transplant, how to explain to Dan
- January 25th 1996 Extra admission, great Christmas, planning stem cell transplant…
- February 17th 1996 Stem cell transplant, pin-downs, rock-bottom then started to improve
- March 6th 1996 Home at last, exhausted, but normality starts to return
- April 28th 1996 The ‘wiggly’ comes out, but we all get ill
- August 20th 1996 Normal life, holidays, but talks of death
- October 27th 1996 Bad news, recurrence of the tumour
- November 15th 1996 Paris, Disneyland, then back into hospital; but going to school
- January 9th 1997 Centre Parcs, learning to swim, Christmas, and Dan’s ‘balloon’
- February 2nd 1997 Florida, radiotherapy, 5th birthday
- April 9th 1997 Managing family life, Northern Ireland in a camper van, living day by day
- May 7th 1997 Dan quietly closing down, peacefully at home
- May 22nd 1997 His death at home, lying in state, and funeral
- July 22nd 1997 Coming to terms to living without him
- September 1998 More than a year on