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Don’t forget me: The last words of a mother whose cancer blog was followed by thousands

June 19, 2015 05:31
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ByRosa Doherty, Rosa Doherty

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A mother of two young children who chronicled her fight against breast cancer in a heart-breaking blog died this week, shortly after writing what she knew was her last post .

Thousands followed lawyer Rosie Choueka, 38, as she wrote candidly of her hopes and fears and, finally, her despair as the disease took hold. She described her love for her children Natalie and Joseph and her wish not to leave them.

Last Thursday, under the headline “My Final Post”, she wrote of how she had spent 10 days in hospital “declining swiftly” and being deluged with messages from well-wishers.

She ended with the words: “This blog was just my story of what I have been going through over the past almost year.