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

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.

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