Lying in a hospital bed, I watched as my friend and fellow patient Laura showed me her drawings.
‘Wow,’ I beamed. ‘These are beautiful.’
Five years old, I was bed-bound after surgery on my spine due to severe kyphosis – a curvature outwards of my spine – and arachnoid cysts – a type of non-cancerous cyst that causes tremendous pain.
Laura was my best friend and every day we played together. One day, her parents came to see me.
‘Laura has brain cancer,’ they explained. ‘We’re taking her home