It’s been over two years now since Jodyne’s brave fight against bowel cancer came to a quiet and peaceful end. My beautiful, loving young wife was 27 when she left us, in the same way she had lived her short life, calm and dignified. So what do you do when the most important part of your life is torn from you? I suppose you do what anyone else would do, you fall apart. But what do you do when you are left with a two year old boy who has no concept of love or loss, well you can do what I did, you fall apart inside, cry when you are alone and spend every moment together sharing the love, the joy and memories left to us; in short, you just get by. My blog is not meant to be a memorial to my wife that already exists in my heart, in my memories, in my home, and in the eyes of my little boy. My love, my passion and my life with Jodyne was, and is extremely private, and now, well now it is eternal.
So I ask myself why I would want to create a blog site when I’ve never been the sort of person who openly discusses my private life or my feelings, well I suppose I want to use this blog to share with my close friends and family the progress of two boys making the most of life after Jodyne, and at the same time have a record of what Leon and I get up to so we can both look back over the year and reflect on how far we have come and how much Leon as grown. If there is one thing I’ve learned since losing Jo it’s that memories are precious, you should do whatever you can to keep them, and keep them safe because sometimes that’s all we are left with.
Warm summer days in Cornwall
