On Christmas Day, 2006, my three year old daughter, Ciara, was admitted to Portlaoise Hospital, Ireland with suspected Irritable Hip, a benign condition easily cured with a couple of weeks rest and relaxation.

Three and a half months later, I am the father of a daughter critically ill with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a rare child cancer with a poor prognosis. This blog will document, for myself more than anyone else, what has happened to us over the last few months and will be a journal for what is to come to us as a family. For the first few posts, I will catch up what has been happening.

And so it began…