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- Creator, Alex Pope
- Function, BBC Information, in Bedford
A charity based by a mom earlier than her loss of life from breast most cancers can be her “lasting legacy”, her husband mentioned.
Darina Grey, 31, from Bedford, began Grey to Sunny Day after she was identified with stage 4 metastatic breast most cancers as a means for sufferers to create reminiscences and luxuriate in high quality time with their family members.
Her husband Jonny mentioned the trigger gave Mrs Grey “one thing to maintain going” throughout her remedy.
“Darina was so strong-willed, she by no means gave up,” he mentioned.
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Mrs Grey acquired her first most cancers prognosis in April 2019, eight weeks after the start of their second little one, Cobi.
In 2022, she realized her most cancers had unfold and her sickness was terminal. She died in April 2023.
Picture supply, Darina Grey
“When she received most cancers for the second time she wished to do one thing to assist different individuals, that is the kind of particular person she was, it gave her one thing to maintain going,” Mr Grey mentioned.
“She wished to depart a long-lasting legacy, so in the future her boys might have a charity to run.
“She mentioned: ‘Once I go I do not need individuals to say most cancers beat me as a result of most cancers will die after I die’. That was her mentality, that it would not beat her,” he added.
“Despite the fact that she was so poorly, with chemotherapy, it was an awesome distraction speaking with individuals and sending them items.”
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Thus far the Bedford-based charity has raised greater than £25,000, supported greater than 300 households, with the cash going in the direction of “creating reminiscences, like soccer matches, journeys to the theatre, issues they can not afford,” Mr Grey mentioned.
Nicola David, one of many charity trustees, mentioned: “She was the kindest particular person you possibly can ever come throughout, that was her complete manner.
“She went to sleep one evening and wakened the following morning and knowledgeable us concerning the charity. It was true Darina. Inside 24 hours we had been up and working.
“We will hold Darina’s needs alive and assist as many individuals as we are able to.”
The charity’s subsequent fundraising occasion is a Golf Day in Pavenham, close to Bedford, on 13 September.
Picture supply, Darina Grey
