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on the day that she died to put the radio on and hear her voice. that was really hard. but it was important. it was important to get that out. and i have no regrets about what we did. i think we did everything we could to make people aware of this disease. and if there s people now that know what glioblastoma is and how underfunded it is, that didn t before, then we ve done ourjob. sorry. i ll make you cry too. noreen, you re a year on, really, in your position to nicola. how are you now? i can t say i feel better, because i don t. i think it s just different. i think it sjust a bit. i think the first year there s a lot of massive, you know, lows. and i think it s a bit like that, really. and then there were days when i could actuallyjust go to work and i was absolutely fine.
that can occur if you sit down for too long. the knock on effect. we have been warned. thank you for the advice. what s to come this morning. student laura nuttall campaigned tirelessly for better awareness of brain cancer up until her death in may. it s a fight her mum nicola has vowed to continue. for the first time, nicola has met noreen parker, the mother of pop star tom parker, who died from the same form of tumour a year earlier. annabel tiffin has the story. sometimes it feels like you could lose your mind almost. i think i ve had days where i thought, i think i m just going to just lose my head, because ijust can t bear it, you know, the pain of it.