A heartbroken Nottinghamshire father of two has said his life will never be the same after losing the "girl of his dreams" to a very rare form of cancer. It comes after his beloved wife and soulmate was diagnosed with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumour (ATRT) after suffering from headaches.
Christopher Wright, now a devastated widower of Newark, Nottinghamshire, recalled the day when his wife Amanda went for a nap and "never woke up". It happened on January 24 last year - a tragic day that "torn apart" the family including their two children. Mr Wright met the "love of [his] life" back in school, when they were only 14. "I have never looked at another women ever since", he added.
He works as a chimney sweep, while Ms Wright was a teacher for 20 years at Barrowby CofE Primary School in Grantham. They got married in 2007 and had Lily and Oliver, who were aged just seven and three respectively, when their mother died. Ms Wright started suffering from headaches in August 2020. "Back then she thought it was only a virus", the heartbroken man recalls. They went to the Queen's Medical Centre but it was not until later in September when she got the correct diagnosis.
