As a cancer patient, Freedom Day feels like a death sentence over my head’

When you live with incurable blood cancer, every day in a pandemic is terrifying.

And with the country set to open up again on Monday, and the rules around wearing face masks and social distancing being scrapped, I have no choice but to go back into my own personal lockdown… or dice with death and risk leaving my children without a mum.

I first caught Covid-19 in April 2020, despite isolating myself two weeks before the rest of the UK went into lockdown. I’ve had chronic lymphocytic leukaemia since 2014, which I have my blood levels monitored closely to check I don’t need chemo if it gets worse. I knew there was a danger of being very ill if I happened to contract the virus.