‘In June I asked the Macmillan (a cancer charity group) nurse how long we had left with her. I was expecting her to say months to a year but she said, ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if she wasn’t here tomorrow.’ I just broke down.”

The couple had been engaged for 21 years, and a month before she died, Jeanette and David got married.  It was one of the happiest days of their lives.

Not long after, she was moved to hospice care.  She died on August 11^th, and Jerry was at her bedside when she went.

“We never had children but we had Jerry ever since he was a puppy. Jeanette bought him off a friend more than ten years ago and he was like her child.  He was there in the hospice when she passed away. He was sitting at the bottom of the bed.”

David says that since his wife died, Jerry cries in his sleep, and becomes distressed when videos and voice recordings of Jeanette are played.

“Ever since Jeanette died, Jerry has cried and whimpered every night. I have to wake him up and say, ‘calm down, son.’

“I have videos of Jeanette on my phone, and there is one where she calls Jerry’s name. I was watching it a few weeks ago and he ran in with his ears pricked. He misses her so much. We both do.”

Though nothing will bring her back, David has filed a claim against his wife’s doctors and the City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

“Jeanette was my life. My entire life has gone. I want to make sure nobody ever has to go through what she went through.”

Hopefully someday the pain of losing Jeanette will fade for both of the fellas who are missing her so dearly now.