Her diagnosis was a secret Daksha Trivedi was determined to keep from her family. Just six months earlier, her twin brother Deepak had lost his life to oesophageal cancer – and now she had the same disease. “I couldn’t bear to tell my mum.
I didn’t want to put her through any more heartache,” says Daksha, an academic from Hertfordshire. “For months, the only person I told was my husband, Pradip.” Daksha’s brother had been diagnosed in September 2016, aged 62, and given 10 months to live. “I was devastated.
We were very close and although he lived in Canada, we spoke on Skype every day,” says Daksha. What is your view? Have your say in the comment section In June 2017, Deepak died after the cancer spread to his stomach.
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