A "fun and bubbly" mum has died just two months after being told her headaches were caused by cancer.
Lorraine Woods, 51, died on April 5 at the R oyal Preston Hospital with her daughter Chantelle, 32, and son Robert, 30, by her bedside. The much loved mum-of-two and gran, from Preston, was initially diagnosed with COPD two years ago and she started suffering from severe migraines, Lancs Live reports.
She was taken to hospital with a suspected stroke in February after she collapsed, and it was then that her brain tumours were discovered. Chantelle said that a week later, her mum was told the brain tumours were cancerous, with the primary cancer believed to be in the lung and other tumours on the liver and kidneys.
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She said her lovely mum suffered weakness down one side of her body and horrendous headaches, and was placed on palliative care.
Lorraine, who was a grandmother to Kyla, five, and Reece, eight, was given six to eight weeks to live. But due to covid restrictions in place at the time at the hospital, she was only allowed one visitor for one hour a day until five days before she died.
Chantelle said: “She was really fun, really bubbly. She was always there to help other people other than herself, and she was loved by many, many people. She helped so many people, with giving lots of advice on mental health and she was just a really bubbly, fun character.”
Thankfully, Chantelle said in the five days before her mum died, the "amazing" Ribblesdale ward where she was staying allowed her to have visitors. This meant she died in the presence of daughter Chantelle and son Robert, while her sisters Denise Whitaker and Michelle Partington were also allowed to spend time with her during her final days.
Chantelle added: “She was the kindest person who gave of herself to others. We never had much money as a family but we weren’t driven by that; love and time together were always so important to her and to us.”
The funeral of Lorraine Woods will take place on Friday, April 29 at Preston Crematorium at 1pm. Her family are raising money to give her the send off that she deserves. To view the family’s Go Fund me page, click here.
