We are the Schroders,…. or as I sometimes like to think, the shoulders on whom we can both rest our heads when we are going through times of trouble.
Indeed, when I put my head on my husband’s shoulder, I feel the most incredible power of love, comfort, encouragement and the power of life.

This book is about how each and every one of us have inside of us a superhero, sometimes without even realising it. Sometimes that superhero side only comes out when we are going through tough times, but it is there all the same.

In the past, my husband and I have worked on books together, but this one is different. This one is about us, about our relationship and about the way in which we support each other at all times, through the good and the bad.

As another of my books testifies to, the last three months have been exceedingly difficult. I have spent all of this time in Basildon Hospital in Essex, getting more and more frustrated because of my inability to stand up or walk.

It all came on suddenly following a migraine I suffered in early February 2013, the morning after which I had lost the use of my legs. It was so frightening, especially during those first few days, but to be honest it is not something you ever get used to; you just end up getting into a routine, but it is a routine that I need to get out of as soon as possible.

I am not a disabled person and this book is about my fight to retain my independence and regain a level of mobility that will allow me to live a normal life.

I have deliberately included some of the photographs of my worst times in the hospital, the times when I was being sick, or crying, because I wanted to show what it means to lose everything you know and expect from life.

But this is where I come back to the superhero that we have inside of us. I had two choices back in February; either I gave up there and then and said ‘fine, I am never going to walk again’ or I invoked that superhero inside of me and said ‘I am going to fight’