While the UK headed into lockdown in the spring of 2020 Rebecca Parks was about to embark on what should have been one of the most exciting times of her life. Even as the country headed into a bleak couple of years she took comfort in the idea she’d be able to bring up her newborn son Luca and his brother Zac, then three, in their loving family home just outside Aberystwyth with few distractions.
So dedicated was she to giving them the best childhood that she could Rebecca, 27, had already quit her job as a nursery nurse to spend as much time as possible with her boys. “I know we were going into lockdown but I was comforted by our little bubble,” she affectionately remembered of stress-free times which she’d give anything to go back to. “Everything was perfect. But then it turned upside-down.”
What Rebecca and her partner Paul Evans, 36, have been through most parents couldn’t begin to comprehend. She’s sat in a small room twice with doctors informing her that her baby boy Luca had stage four cancer and likely had only months to live and yet he continues to bounce back.
