MICHELLE Vick watches her husband get out of bed every day, go to work, cook dinner and play with their daughters and she couldn’t be more proud.

It’s a scene not uncommon in most family homes but one that the mum-of-two counts her blessings for every single day.

For ambulance-crew Jeff is almost always battling nausea, chronic fatigue and painfully sore skin – the reality of living with kidney cancer that cannot be cured and receiving treatment which is keeping him alive.

It was in 2014 that Jeff, then 42, was diagnosed with kidney cancer and doctors discovered a tumour the size of a rugby ball engulfing his left kidney.

He underwent treatment including major surgery to remove his kidney and the tumour before going into remission.

But just days before Christmas in 2016 came the bombshell news that the cancer was back – and couldn’t be cured.

Michelle, 43, said: "It was just a routine check-up and we had been to many, every three months, being told things were ok. I didn’t go to this one – and I will never forgive myself for not being there, by his side.

"When he told me the news it was back and had spread and they could see it in his lungs, I was devastated. It hit me a lot harder."

Jeff, now 47, was offered the chance to take part in a clinical trial which has given him the chance to have breaks in his treatment cycles allowing life to return to normal for a short time.

Michelle will take part in Race for Life alongside a team of colleagues from Dorset law firm Coles Miller in Bournemouth on Sunday.

Having a dad living with incurable cancer is something their daughters Jasmine, 11, and seven-year-old Tiegan simply get on with.

Jeff said: "They know dad has cancer and they are not scared of the word."

Michelle will take on the Bournemouth 10k race on June 10 while Jasmine and Tiegan are currently considering taking on a challenge of their own in aid of Cancer Research UK – the brand new Race for Life Pretty Muddy Kids event in Poole the following weekend.

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BOURNEMOUTH will once again be turned into a sea of pink on Sunday June 10 when Race for Life returns to the town.

The 5k and 10k races will take place on the seafront and there are still places for women and girls wanting to take part.

A bumper Race for Life weekend will then take place on June 16 and 17 in Poole, kicking off with the all new Pretty Muddy Kids event on Saturday morning where children can take on the obstacles, crawl through the mud pit and hit the big slide – and get completely dirty in aid of a good cause.

The adults Pretty Muddy event will get underway at 10.30am the same day.

Sunday will see Baiter Park turn pink for the annual 5k and 10k races which will begin at 11am.