The , poised and stoic in her diagnosis, gave no indication of the many things she is likely to be feeling, the fears she is dealing with, the thoughts that keep her awake in the middle of the night.Her priority is not only going to be her health, but the emotional wellbeing of her three young children, ensuring they know only what they absolutely need to, with all the positive spin she can muster: Mummy be OK.When, in 2014, I was diagnosed aged 46 with malignant melanoma — a particularly aggressive form of skin cancer that couldn't simply be scraped away and forgotten, but the type that required surgery and biopsies of nearby lymph nodes, six-monthly check-ups and recurring worries about my surgeon's warning that 'melanomas have a habit of returning' – my children seemed surprisingly unbothered.
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