A father with motor neurone disease describes the sadness of facing a terminal diagnosis – and his plan to ‘write and doodle’ his way into his boys’ future
I need to write 33 future birthday cards to my two sons but can’t decide what stationery to use. Or is it the thought of writing the first one? Or having them finished, one on top of the other, in a neat pile in front of me? Thirty three rectangular reminders of every single birthday I will miss when I am gone.
My eldest is almost six and my baby boy is 18 months. And in a year, or probably two, on a May or a November day, their mum will take an old shoe box from a drawer and pull out the first card from Dad. And then for every year until they’re 21. So I need to write these cards, if that’s my plan. I need to start.
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