It was not the way I imagined I would get married. Bald, bloated and a size 22, I was far from looking or feeling my best. But there was a lot about my wedding that wasn’t as I’d planned, including being diagnosed with incurable cancer just months before.
‘The scan had detected a mass on my brain’
Andrew and I had matched on a dating app back in January 2015. A gas engineer, he was ambitious, independent and creative, and it was refreshing to meet someone who was so genuinely lovely. Within eight months we’d moved in together and 18 months after that we’d bought our first house.
I was working as a physiotherapist for the NHS and having loved rowing since uni, I was a