Like mother, like daughter
Dec 30, 2021
4 minutes
Nicky Hutchinson, 50, Hatherleigh, Devon
Standing beside me as we looked in the mirror, my daughter Erin, then 17, nodded.
‘That’s definitely the wig for you,’ she smiled as I smoothed down the brown strands.
We’d always loved our mum-and-daughter shopping trips, only this time it was a little different.
It was October 2019 and I’d begun treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare form of cancer.
I’d found a lump on my neck just a month before.
Tests at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital revealed it had already spread to my bone marrow and kidneys.
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