'6 weeks after this photo was taken our whole world turned upside down'
Shirley celebrating her 55th birthday with daughter Olivia, Rochelle’s younger sister Rochelle Bugg was 25 when she gave up her job and freedom to nurse her dying mother. She explains how it was the most rewarding – and heartbreaking – experience of her life The silence in the car was deafening as we pulled away from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. What is there to say when you’ve just found out your mum has an incurable brain tumour, with a 25 per cent chance of survival past two years? Anaplastic astrocytoma. I’d never heard the words before, but now they were all I cou...