2,659 Followers, 367 Following, 817 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from @philippaforrester The closest wolves to us belong to the Phantom Springs pack, and I love following the sound of their howls through the wilderness from our deck.The mother bear, on all fours, was big enough to reach the bonnet of my SUV – an awe-inspiring sight – and once the bears had run to the adjacent field, we climbed out of the car to get a better look.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.Before leaving our home in Bath in 2015, life was very full-on. “Fred said afterwards, ‘I knew it was serious then’.”We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.“It was all a bit surreal,” says Forrester, who has not previously spoken publicly about her son’s illness but has chosen to do so now to raise awareness of early diagnosis for Brain Tumour Awareness Month.“Each scan is always a bit nerve racking, but it’s rare with this kind of tumour that it does come back, so we count our blessings every day,” she says. “It’s a miracle we didn’t end up in a much worse situation.”When, during the summer holidays in 2016, he complained that looking at a computer screen made his head hurt, Forrester took him to see another doctor.
These days we have to bribe them with biscuits to go out looking for otters, and if we say, ‘Get out on your snowboard,’ the response will be, ‘Meh.’ Screens are the bane of parents’ lives, no matter where you live.TV presenter Philippa Forrester agreed to move temporarily to the wilds of Wyoming for her husband’s job. Yet it turns out many things stay the same. That was when she first learned how serious the situation might be.“It was like being in a dream. Instead, I had to stop to avoid hitting a family of three grizzly bears that had stepped out of the bushes to cross the road.I’ve also got used to driving through deep snow and past icy precipices to get the boys to school, stopping everything to watch a pack of wolves feeding and seeing the lights from night-skiers’ helmets winding down the mountains.When we first arrived, our new home – a log cabin – was surrounded by deep snow. They still didn’t know if it was cancerous but at that point your focus is ‘is he still alive? “If I hadn’t taken him to the eye doctor we could have lost him. Other names: Philippa Clare Ryan Hamilton James: Education : Westgate School, Peter Symonds College: Alma mater: University of Birmingham: Occupation: … Since then, he’s had scans every few months and so far there is no sign of it returning. W hen Philippa Forrester’s teenage son Fred started suffering from exhaustion and struggling to concentrate at school, everyone assured her it was normal. A couple called Ken and Bobbi live in the cabin next door, but it is still very remote – we have to travel an hour and 25 minutes to find the nearest pint of milk.When you transplant a family to a new country, culture and terrain, there are so many changes – the people, the rhythms, the views.