All of Harry Simpson’s Christmases came at once when he rang the hospital bell to signal he was in remission from cancer on December 28.
Not only was he celebrating reaching a milestone he feared he might never see, he was doing so having met the woman of his dreams – who fate had brought to his hospital room.
So for Harry, being diagnosed last March with a rare and deadly form of leukaemia proved to have a positive side, as without his cancer he and Ciara Allen might never got together.