What a Difference a Day Makes: The moment I knew my husband wasn't going to live
Lorraine Crimmins talks to Helen O’Callaghan about her husband John’s terminal cancer diagnosis – and about a significant moment that happened a month before he passed away.
Lorraine Crimmins talks about losing her husband John to terminal cancer. Photo: Ray Ryan
The 24 hours that made the biggest impact wasn’t the moment my husband’s cancer was diagnosed as terminal. It was a very private moment between John and me about a month before he passed when I really knew he wasn’t going to live.
It all started in May 2019 with a blister on his tongue that didn’t go away. The GP referred him to a maxillofacial surgeon in CUH, a biopsy was done. A week later the result came: cancer. He was 33.
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