- She was diagnosed
- with ovarian cancer:
- major surgery
- chemo
- sickness
- hair loss
- complicated jargon, red
- tape.
- As well as working
- her husband cared for her.
- ‘Having chemotherapy makes you see
- everything through a mist.’
- One day
- she came downstairs
- to discover her husband
- lying on the living room floor
- dead.
- Afterward
- the Department told her
- she could no longer claim employment support
- because her bereavement benefit
- was five pounds more a week
- and she was not allowed
- to claim for both.
[Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 26/01/2011, I didn’t ask to be ill, I just asked for support]