Mum's heartache after daughter dies just weeks after going to A&E with earache

A mum whose daughter died just weeks after going to A&E with earache has spoken of her devastation.

Rosemary Wright's daughter Deb decided to visit hospital when a course of antibiotics failed to ease her earache pain.

But tragically, the trip to A&E revealed the 52-year-old actually had oesophageal cancer – a type of cancer that affects the long tube carrying food from the throat to the stomach.

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Rosemary, from Derby, described the news as a “complete shock”, telling Derbyshire Live: “From her initial diagnosis, we had six weeks with Deb. It was such a shock as she was so fit and healthy.

“Every little goal she set herself was taken away. After she died, I was really angry, because she had had so much planned."

Sadly, further tragedy hit the family when Rosemary’s husband of 57 years, Ken, died in January last year. Rosemary, 79, said: "He had a heart problem and went downhill after Deb died. He never really got over it and ended up not wanting to live which was hard to take.

"We’d been together for sixty years and suddenly you’re only half a person, you’re no longer whole anymore. It was difficult to come to terms with it all because Deb would have given anything to stay with us, whereas the old man had had enough.

“Ken didn’t want a funeral as such, he just wanted to go with nobody there, with no fuss. We knew the day he was going to be cremated but not the time. That was hard as a family, as we couldn’t really say goodbye. But it’s what he wanted.”

Speaking about her memories of Deb, Rosemary added: "Deb and I had a good relationship. She wanted to learn to run so she asked me if I’d go running with her. She completed a marathon and she even