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Life with Leukaemia: A family’s story of navigating the emotional, physical and financial challenges of living with blood cancer, by Amy Atkinson It is over two years since I started writing for the Bishop’s Stortford Independent. My husband Joel had been battling cancer for five months when I met with Paul, the newspaper’s editor, fuelled by my determination to bring awareness of blood cancer to the community through my writing. My husband was in his late 20s when he was diagnosed. Our daughter Isla was four at the time. Before his diagnosis we took life for granted, thinking we had unlimited…