DEAR DEIDRE: DOCTORS say it’s a miracle I’m alive after previously telling me I had just months to live.
But I wish I’d died because my husband left me for somebody else.
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I’m 47 and he is 50. I got cancer in my thirties.
We were on holiday in Germany visiting family when I started to get very sick and weak.
After a scan, I was told how little time I had left.
I had radiotherapy but the outlook wasn’t good. My husband said our only option was to go to Switzerland to end my life.
I didn’t want to and soon afterwards, doctors said the radiotherapy was working.
But my husband said he couldn’t handle being with me anymore. He abandoned me.
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It turns out he had somebody else and they now have two children together.
I feel useless.
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DEIDRE SAYS: I am so sorry you have been left like this, having been through such a lot already.
Your emotional and physical strength is incredible and you deserve to find some happiness now.
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