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[CLKD]

She decided on 12 August to stop treatment.  She wants to get through C.mas.

[Taz2]

She made the decision to stop after Christmas if she wants to I think - well that's how I interpreted this part

" 'When you're in terrible pain, you make decisions.'
She told hosts Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden: 'I want my husband and children to see me off happy, contented.
'So I put the chemotherapy in a box.
'In this box, I could stop the chemotherapy after Christmas - I'm determined to hang on until Christmas.
'If my quality of life fades after that, I want to be able to open the box, make a choice and stop the chemotherapy"

Taz x

[honeybun]

That's how I read it too.


Honeyb
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[Joyce]

Think media have misconstrued what she actually said/meant. My understanding when I watched her on TM was that she wants to get through Christmas, if the disease will let her. Then she can stop chemo. My SIL was similar with her cancer, she got through Christmas but passed just into the New Year. That was nearly 20 years ago now.

[Dyan]

Died yesterday in her husbands arms.

RIP Linda

[Joyce]

 

[ellie]

So sad 

[babyjane]

I am so sad for this, that she did not get her christmas with her family. She was a brave and inspirational lady.

I do not normally feel the loss of a celebrity deeply but I am this lady, I admired her greatly for many years, she was an ambassador for women.

Lets honour her campaign to get people to send in their poo tests for checking.

[babyjane]

was she, I didn't know that katsclaws.

[honeybun]

I agree BJ, it's such a shame she did not get her wish. I did think she looked terribly ill when she appeared on TV a few weeks ago so I'm not terribly surprised.

It's so very sad......lovely lady who only had ten years with her Mr Spain.


Honeyb
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[Limpy]

So so sad.
Especially her not getting get the last Christmas the wanted so much.

[Taz2]

I wonder if they'll still screen her last Loose Women appearance where she said goodbye to everyone? I hope they do.

Taz x

[Joyce]

They said on This Morning it will be screened on Loose Women on Wednesday Taz.

[Taz2]

Thank you. Not that watch Loose Women but friends at work were talking about it today before we heard that she had died.

Having seen two friends die from secondary liver cancer over the past couple of years I am pleased that she is at peace as it is so upsetting to watch someone die from such a painful cancer. I feel sorry for her husband in that he so wanted to let her die at home but sometimes hospital/hospice care is necessary in the final hours.

Taz x

[Joyce]

Apparently she was in so much pain, that she needed hospital/hospice care. My brother's first wife survived about 6 weeks after her chemo. She did manage one final Christmas though with her family.
Lynda is now at peace.