Victoria Derbyshire wrote ‘goodbye letter’ to sons before breast cancer surgery

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00:00Before your mastectomy you wrote them letters. I did. I had this really weird

00:06anxiety, maybe it's rational, that I wasn't going to wake up after the

00:11anaesthetic. So I wrote each of them like a goodbye letter in case I didn't wake

00:20up. I know I obviously I was going to wake up because a million people have

00:24anaesthetic every day and wake up but I just that was the thing that was making

00:27them most nervous. It wasn't losing a breast, that was fine, get the cancer out.

00:31What if I don't see my boys again? So I wrote them letters which I put in my

00:36bedside drawer. Mark knew they were where they were in case that would happen and

00:41it was just I mean obviously it was how much I loved them but it was and please

00:47remember your manners and will you make sure you're kind to people. All the stuff

00:51I say every day anyway just I just wanted it on paper just so they'd have

00:56it on their plate.