Adrian’s Story

Site created on April 16, 2021

Welcome to our CaringBridge website. It's a really great tool to keep family and friends updated in one place.  

For those of you who might not know Adrian was diagnosed with bladder cancer in November and has undergone surgery and chemotherapy.  He was doing really well until around the middle of March when he developed a lot of additional symptoms and investigations revealed that the cancer is now in his brain and barring a miracle is untreatable.  He's being looked after in a wonderful hospice (St Oswalds, Newcastle) for the past few weeks to stabilise his condition and get medication right and we are now praying that he will be able to come home in the next couple of days (end of April).

 We really appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement but will use this site to keep you updated rather than replying to the many wonderfully supportive messages that our family are all receiving.  Please feel free to post well wishes or any photos you have of Adrian.  Visiting at the hospice is very limited so we are hoping more visits will be possible once he's at home.  Please let us know if you'd like to visit.  

Newest Update

October 22, 2021

Journal entry by Katherine Wege —

Hi Friends and Family
 
Here is the link to the event page on Facebook where we will be live-streaming Dad's Thanksgiving Celebration Service from 10.50am tomorrow,  Sat 23rd Oct. For anyone who can't be there in person.
 
https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Smith-Thanksgiving-Service-100243042450436

See you online tomorrow 

Much love

Katherine

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