Childhood sweethearts race to tie the knot after devastating cancer diagnosis – Edinburgh Live
A pair of high school sweethearts who recently got back together are desperate to tie the knot after receiving some terrible news.
When Lisa Clark and Jason Burton rekindled their romance 30 years after their first meeting, the pair knew they were soulmates and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Sadly just eight months after getting back together Jason was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the couple were gutted to have their future short.
Lisa, 48, said: …….
A pair of high school sweethearts who recently got back together are desperate to tie the knot after receiving some terrible news.
When Lisa Clark and Jason Burton rekindled their romance 30 years after their first meeting, the pair knew they were soulmates and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Sadly just eight months after getting back together Jason was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the couple were gutted to have their future short.
Lisa, 48, said: “Jason’s dad and my mum got together and we hit it off while we were both 16 in 1989. We were together around eight or nine months.
“Prior to that, Jason lost his mum, Wendy, and his brother, Darren, to cancer. His brother had bone cancer and his mother had breast cancer. He lost his mum just before his 16th birthday and lost his brother just after his birthday.
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“When our parents split, at the time, we didn’t have laptops or phones or anything like that so we just lost contact.
Then 32 years later in May 2021, Lisa said she received a message from Jason, also 48, on Facebook sometime after his marriage broke down. The pair met up right away and once again hit it off as though they’d never been apart.
Lisa said: “His marriage fell through and he got back in touch with me on Facebook about eight months ago and we hit it off again. I have a rule where I think you need to get to know someone for a good two years before you move in together, but he moved in with me after two months. It just felt right.”
The next heartbreaking blow came when Jason discovered the cancer was inoperable because it affected too much of his liver. Though doctors offered him chemotherapy to slow the cancer’s growth, they told him they would not be able to cure him. He just lost contact.”
Lisa said Jason had been diagnosed with cancer twice before in his life. She said he had testicular cancer aged four and then had a tumour cut out of his arm in 2013.
However, his most recent diagnosis was no less of a shock.
“He had been to the …….
Source: https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/childhood-sweethearts-race-tie-knot-22623821
