An adopted child born with a rare eye cancer

Imagine the array of emotions parents go through when their baby is diagnosed with cancer. Now add to that the fact that their child is adopted, and that this condition is genetic.
IN the first chapter of ‘Beyond the Red Door’, I focus on the time when my cancer was diagnosed. Of course I have no memory of what went on, but my parents certainly did. For them, it was a harrowing time, watching me undergo intensive radiotherapy, waiting to see if the tumours would shrink, wondering if I would live. Amongst all this, they wondered if my natural parents should be told. I was their child, after all - the child of my natural parents - and they had a right to know. My parents have always had a high regard for the parents who gave me life; they’ve never been scared of losing me.
In the rest of the chapter, I reveal my memories of the many trips to hospital to check on the tumours, to make sure they didn’t come back. And this went on for five years, years I have strong memories about.
But even when I am given the all clear, more is yet to come.
Stay tuned for chapter two.

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