When Auckland health coach Sylvia Philcox was asked to attend a hospital meeting about her late mother Ai Sukaesih’s cancer treatment, she knew it wasn’t going to be good news.
She and her partner Lukas Phan-huy had taken Ai into Auckland Hospital on 5 October last year as she was struggling to breathe. Doctors found a tumour in Ai’s neck and by the 11th, they had diagnosed her with thyroid cancer.
“Initially, they thought she
