“I brought my daughter into the world and took her out of it.”
As I held Deborah’s hand during her final moments,
a mix of sadness and relief overcame me—my vibrant daughter,
who fought a brave battle with bowel cancer, was finally free from pain.
Despite being a mother of three, losing Deborah,
who passed away at 40 after a five-and-a-half-year struggle,
has been incredibly hard,
especially for her 16-year-old and 14-year-old children,
Hugo and Eloise. Deborah,
diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer at 35.