John Janczewski pays tribute to his mum who died just weeks after doctors discovered a cancerous brain tumour
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00:00 She just had that kind of spirit, that, yeah,
00:03 loving spirit where she just wants to help people.
00:06 Very proud of that.
00:07 And yeah, just wish we had more time with her,
00:09 unfortunately, you know,
00:11 when it all sort of happened initially
00:13 about four or five weeks ago now,
00:16 when she first went into hospital,
00:17 they said like, oh, we think she's got a tumor.
00:20 And it just sort of deteriorated really quickly.
00:21 First, it was, depending on results,
00:23 it could be three months worst case scenario
00:26 to three years best case scenario.
00:28 And we thought, well, it's not great,
00:30 but three or four years would be fantastic.
00:32 Couldn't operate, couldn't do chemo.
00:34 And then it was a case of,
00:34 well, we'll just make her comfortable.
00:36 She'll probably get three months.
00:37 And then being told that sort of a week, 10 days later,
00:40 she'd gone.
00:41 So it just happened really, really quickly.
00:44 But she just had a kind of spirit,
00:48 like I'm more cynical, I'm more sarcastic.
00:50 Like that's my sense of humor.
00:51 My mom was more sort of caring and open.
00:55 My last memory of my mom while she's still coherent,
00:59 which I've loved telling the last week or so,
01:02 is I got to the thing
01:04 and she was able to still open her eyes slightly.
01:07 As you can see, it was me.
01:07 And I was telling her that I was gonna sing Spice Girls
01:09 at her funeral.
01:10 And she was like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:12 When she was waving her hands and shaking her head.
01:14 And it's so daft and so silly
01:18 that that's my last memory of my mom.
01:20 But I'm so glad it was just a happy one.
01:22 It wasn't of her being in hospital in pain.
01:26 Thankfully she wasn't in pain at the end.
01:27 And it's just so nice to have something daft as well.