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KINDNESS FROM STRANGERS Dying mum’s crippling hardship

Barely two months ago, Cheryl Carr couldn’t put a foot on the ground without an excruciating pain shooting up her leg. In crippling agony, the mum-of-two staggered the few steps to her bathroom before collapsing back onto her bed.

With cancer lodged in her spine for the past seven years, the terrible side effects of drugs keeping the killer disease at bay has radically changed the life of the East Auckland mum, who less than a decade ago ran a construction company.

Now the exhausting toll

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