'The kids I may have will not get to know their granny'
The Co Armagh woman is still feeling that raw grief nine years later. Anne O'Neill was diagnosed with the disease after feeling unwell and developing a pain in her side.
The O’Neill family are tight- knit, Grainne growing up in Armagh City with an older brother and sister. Anne gave up her job to take care of her children."My dad Tom O’Neill was a bookmaker. At the end of May 2014, I was finishing up at University for the summer and asked mummy to come up and help me pack up. She said she felt unwell, like she had flu and told me my dad would come up to help me instead.
Her appetite then started to drop and she started to lose weight and then she started to get jaundiced."It was then that a doctor came in to her when she was on her own and told her she had cancer and that it could be pancreatic. To this day my dad remembers exactly where he was when he got the call from my mum.
"I remember her looking very yellow with jaundice. The bile duct had been blocked but it was the 12th of July holidays and because there was no surgeon around to do an operation, she was sent home. In the end she had to go to Limavady to have the surgery. A biopsy was done on the same day to determine what stage she was at and it came back inconclusive.
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