In his grimmest hour, an angel appeared in the uniform of a hospital cleaner

For the family at the eye of such a brutal storm, the immense physical, mental and emotional buffeting can only knock them into the sidings.

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Every bad day is a haemorrhage in the vessel of life.

The Bradleys have used the platform Stephen' profile offers to discuss this cut that can bleed away the things most take for granted, as they felt they could “be a voice for [similar] families who haven't got a voice and help them in some small way”.

Many of us who might have

instinctively pulled the curtains when dealt such a crushing blow by fate will acknowledge and salute what a brave, generous and - hopefully - cathartic road to travel this was.

On Tuesday, Stephen, his wife Emma, their other son, Jaden and daughter Ella accompanied Josh to St John’s Ward at Crumlin Children’s Hospital. A place that has been the epicentre of this story of sickness and love.

This week, gloriously, it was re-imagined as a palace of happiness.

The Bradleys were there to ring the bell that announces Josh is cancer-free, his leukaemia consigned to the wastepaper basket of history.

As liberation chimed, Emma and Stephen must have known a feeling too huge to comprehend.

It is not to trespass on deeply personal terrain to imagine the tug of love, euphoria, gratitude and bone-deep relief.