How the travel retail community made Sinead feel less alone

by Martin Moodie |
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Martin Moodie

Martin Moodie is the Founder & Chairman of The Moodie Report.

I’m at Hong Kong International Airport, soon to board Cathay Pacific 239 bound for London Heathrow.

It’s a route I will be taking many times over coming months, following my Wales-based daughter Sinead’s recent diagnosis with Nut Carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer.

Sinead has never been one for the limelight and her Blog about the battle she and her family face in the months ahead therefore surprised me as much as it inspired. It was a remarkable, courageous piece of writing that has generated over 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn and almost 100 comments.

Click here to read Sinead’s Blog

On behalf of Sinead I thank all those who took the time to read her Blog and left so many loving and motivating comments.

Cancer is an all-too common curse in our world and to see how many others in our industry have been touched by it and fought it either personally or through a family member made Sinead, I know, feel less alone.

Such a profound upheaval in a family’s life – all played out in under two months – necessitates multiple changes. In my case that will be of geography with my wife Yulim and me spending much of our time in Europe over coming months.

That time will not include TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes, one of the rare years I will have missed this wonderful event (one of the others, perversely, was when I was undergoing cancer treatment in 2010).

If I am not as responsive to emails and requests for interviews over coming months, please bear with me. The work pressure is unrelenting, something that requires equally unrelenting focus to cope with. For now though, my principal focus must lie elsewhere and privacy will be the order of the day, while I join Team Sinead in her ascent of Mount Difficulty. ✈