'When our six-year-old son died of cancer, there was no support whatsoever'
When I saw the box of tissues on the oncologist’s table, I knew that we were about to hear the news no parents ever should. There was nothing more that could be done, we were told abruptly, for our six-year-old, Hugh, whose diagnosis with a rare form of cancer had left our bright boy to fade away completely. Ten days later, he was gone.