Two days after Colin Brett held his mum’s hand on her hospice bed and she confessed to him her fear of dying, her aggressive cancer cruelly robbed her of the power of speech.
When that brutal decline left her unable to articulate to her son what scared her most about her own passing, it left Colin tormented about the psychological journey his mum, Dorothy, was facing entirely alone – until her broken body was physically unable to travel any further.
Now, 10 months after Dot died at home at the age of 80 with her closest family by her bedside, 50-year-old dad-of-one Colin is emulating the isolation of his mum’s psychological battle by embarking on a lone, gruelling journey of his own in support of Marie Curie – the charity that gave to her, and those who loved her, such unconditional care.
