Inverness tanker driver battling brain cancer is one step closer to receiving lifesaving treatment

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00:00 Chloe, Stephen's wife, Stephen had a fuel tanker crash two years ago now where we found

00:08 out he had a brain tumour. It's been a tough couple of years, he had to learn to walk and

00:14 talk again and then we found out it was cancer. So he's been on radiotherapy, chemotherapy,

00:23 all while we welcomed our first daughter and that's why we're fundraising for immunotherapy

00:31 treatment because it's a better outcome. The chemotherapy, they can say that he's got about

00:40 14 years whereas immunotherapy works to shrink the tumour. The chemotherapy he's receiving

00:48 it's never going to shrink the tumour, it's just to maintain it. So it's going to give us a better

00:54 outlook and hopefully have as long as we can as a family. But yeah, the immunotherapy, we've got a

01:03 contract with the people but it's not going to start until we've got the funds because they need

01:07 the funds up front for it. Target was £50,000 and we're about halfway there. I think we're at

01:14 £24,000 something so to get even halfway there has been amazing. But yeah, just the last half to

01:21 go now. So it's got the ability and like trials that they've done, there's people who've had

01:29 tumours and they've managed to become tumour free. So obviously if you're tumour free you've got,

01:35 I'd say you're back to square one with the possibilities. But it certainly will outlast

01:43 14 years that chemo offers them. It is hard, yeah, there's been a lot of down days but

01:51 I don't know, I try and stay positive so think about what could be and then if bad happens I'll

01:59 deal with it when it happens.