Pick Me Up!

WHEN ROBINS APPEAR

Watching from the side of the stage as my husband Andrew sang, I felt a pang of pride. His vocal harmony group

Jack Pack had come fourth in Britain’s Got Talent and even signed a record deal with Simon Cowell.

The next morning, we went out for breakfast with my mum Julie to celebrate – she was so proud of him, too.

It was extremely bittersweet though.

Because Mum had been suffering with an incurable brain tumour for the past six years.

She’d been diagnosed in 2008, after suffering with neck spasms that came on suddenly.

Then she started getting headaches, too.

None of us were too worried at first – Mum had always been fit and healthy.

She went back and forth to see her GP for about a year.

After 18 months of pushing for further investigations, she

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