When Lisa Dalloway realised she hadn’t seen her mum Jackie for a while, she knew something wasn’t right. The 48-year-old had been making up excuses not to go out and would mostly only speak to her family on the phone.
The mum hid herself away for around a year before her loved ones received some earth-shattering news earlier this month. READ MORE: 'I was a party girl with constant hangxiety - I went sober at 26 after uni left me with an alcohol problem' READ MORE: 'I trusted my dentist.
What they did was so bad nobody else would treat me' Jackie had cancer – and it had spread to every part of her body. Tragically, doctors knew the mum-of-four didn’t have long left to live.
Her family played it hour-by-hour until she passed away just after midnight on October 18. She leaves behind devastated daughters Lisa, 31, Beckie, 26, Lyndzie, 21 and Chrissie, 17.
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