I survived the Manchester Arena bombing but didn't think I deserved help

We decided to just run to the car and not look back.

Cath Hill and her son, Jake I looked out into the crowd and saw thousands of hopeful faces staring back at us. I was on stage as part of the Manchester Survivors Choir during the city’s Manchester Together – With One Voice event, marking the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on 22 May 2017. But as soon as we started singing Andra Day’s Rise Up, my 11-year-old son, Jake, walked over to me with tears in his eyes. He was overcome with emotion and couldn’t face the performance alone.

Before the attacks, he had just started going off to school by himself, but that all went out the window. He was purposefully avoiding walking near roads after what happened in Cambrils or would come with me into the petrol station to pay rather than wait in the car. In fact, one time at the LEGO store in Sheffield, we saw two armed guards. He ended up having a panic attack and telling me he literally couldn’t move his legs. I knew I needed to do something.

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