Sitting beside the hospital bed where my 15-year-old daughter Leoni lay, I clutched her hand. ‘It’s cancer,’ I said, fighting back tears. Seeing her bewildered face staring back at me, my heart broke.

Brett’s fiancée had been by his side through a devastating diagnosis. Then a cruel twist of fate turned the tables…

When I think back to just a few short years ago, my house was filled with the noise of three boisterous boys, and I couldn’t get a moment’s peace – but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. In January

I’d vowed to stop at nothing to help my husband but as the devastating news kept coming, time was running out.

While my hero was losing his fight, I had a battle of my own

Watching my husband Gary answer the phone, I saw the colour drain from his cheeks as he listened intently. Without saying a word, he handed the phone to me, and I could see a shimmer of tears in his e