WE FOUGHT IT TOGETHER
‘STILL A TEENAGER, ERIN WAS MY ROCK’
Standing beside me as we looked in the mirror, my daughter Erin smoothed the brown strands of hair framing my face and nodded with approval. ‘I think we’ve found the right one, Mum, you look beautiful,’ she said. ‘That’s definitely the wig for you.’ Erin, then 17, and I had always loved shopping together, but today’s outing to the hospital’s charity shop was very different to our usual days out. It was October 2019 and I’d begun treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare cancer of the lymphatic system. It had been discovered the previous month
