Meeting online in the early 2000s, marrying two years later and welcoming their baby son Finn, Nicky Wake and her husband Andy looked forward to spending the rest of their lives together.
But when she returned home from a trip away in London with work in 2017, everything changed. He told her he'd been having chest pains.
"My blood ran cold," Nicky, from Bury, remembers. "I had a terrible feeling. He was a typical man and didn't like to talk about health things, but I marched him to the doctors."