Cancer may have robbed her of her mum when she was only seven years old. It may have taken away her breasts and two years of carefree, healthy living. But, insists young West Lothian woman Nicole Little, cancer will never take away her smile.
When, in the consultant’s room, Nicole was diagnosed with the same cancer that had claimed the life of her much-loved mum 20 years previously, she turned to her dad and saw his eyes well with tears. It was a moment that broke her heart.
Her recollection of a woman holding her hand from a hospital bed is the only vivid memory Nicole has of her mum, Celine Mason, who lost her battle with breast cancer at the age of 32 when her little girl was only seven years old.
