CervicalCheck campaigner Stephen Teap has paid a heartbreaking tribute to his late spouse Irene on the fifth anniversary of her loss of life.
s Teap died on the age of 35 in 2017 after being identified with cervical most cancers.
She shared two sons together with her husband, Noah and Oscar.
Taking to Twitter right this moment, Mr Teap wrote: “One other yr gone, one other 12 months of reminiscences and milestones missed.
“It is troublesome to get my head round that right this moment is Irene’s fifth anniversary since she handed, some days it appears like a lifetime in the past and different days it appears like she solely left us yesterday.
“Irene is missed as a lot right this moment as she was the primary time she left us, she is at all times in our ideas and reminiscences day by day. In any case, thanks as at all times to our buddies who’re right here for us and in your type messages right this moment.”
Mr Teap, who’s from Cork, has launched a Excessive Courtroom authorized motion in opposition to two laboratories and the HSE after the loss of life of his spouse.
He is suing over the alleged misreporting of two of his spouse’s smear slides and his younger sons have additionally lodged claims for nervous shock arising out of the loss of life of their mom.
In an article written by Mr Teap for the Irish Impartial in 2019, he mentioned his households lives “modified without end” after his spouse was identified with cervical most cancers.
He mentioned the price of most cancers nonetheless affected his household two years after her loss of life, and the monetary affect that terminal sicknesses trigger is “by no means ending.”
“Our desires have been crushed, our future was rewritten,” he wrote.
“Now that I am a single dad or mum the prices of most cancers proceed as myself and my boys proceed shifting ahead into our new life that has been thrust on us.
“It is two-and-a-half years since Irene handed and the combat for us nonetheless continues. The worth of most cancers we’re nonetheless paying for on a regular basis, whether or not it is the value of grief related by shedding Irene or the continued monetary affect we wrestle with and attempt to regulate to on a regular basis.”
