'Too much, too young'

1992 - 1996 - so the years passed with Elaine fighting her cancer and continuing to make some sort of connection with her eldest son.

I saw her more when I moved back to North London. She was working in an office in London when her cancer was diagnosed. She liked her job and had a good social life with her friends. But as she had to take more and more time off for the chemotherapy her employer decided to 'let her go'. She was upset about it but she told me she could understand their point of view.

But she wanted to keep busy so she got a part-time job at a newsagents in her local town. She enjoyed it especially chatting to the customers.

She also got involved in a charity for disabled people and she helped to organize holidays for them.

She kept herself busy. Unfortunately the tumour was busy too.