New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Grateful David MY MUM’S FINAL ACT OF LOVE

‘I can go to them for any sort of advice. Well, I don’t really ask, I just receive it!’

Victoria Seymour loved a glass of bubbles. So when the 50-year-old chief pharmacist of Northland DHB found herself feeling yet again like she couldn’t stomach a glass of wine, she knew there was “something wrong”.

The devoted mum-of-three stopped off at the chemist to get a pregnancy test, which subsequently turned positive.

But, as a scientist – and knowing she couldn’t be pregnant – it confirmed her hunch that something more sinister, a tumour, was giving her a false positive result.

Five months later, just before succumbing to liver cancer, Vicki asked one request of her younger

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