Audrey and Eddie Buckham worked hard and saved all their lives.
They were still both working in 2020, Audrey as an administrator for the NHS and Eddie as a dispatch driver, when Eddie started to lose weight.
He underwent medical investigation and for months doctors couldn’t establish what was wrong. Then, in October 2020, Eddie was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and he began 12 gruelling rounds of chemotherapy.
It was a physically and emotionally exhausting time for the 64-year-old grandmother from County Durham, who reduced her work to three days a week to care for Eddie.
‘It was aggressive chemo and he was going every two weeks for six months. He felt terrible, he was tired and had no appetite, but he was a fighter,’ she remembers…
