I’m going to party for my final few months... and get revenge on those who wronged me
my 60th next year. They brushed it off, but I don’t want to miss out on a party.” Despite Linda’s positive attitude, she admits she gets overcome by emotion when she thinks of those she will leave behind and the many milestones she will miss. Linda, who has six grand-nephews and nieces, said: “My first thought when I was diagnosed was how I wasn’t going to see them grow up. There are times when I lie alone and cry, thinking of what I’m going to miss.
“I’m desperate to be here for their birthdays, their first boyfriends, their first heartbreak, their weddings. I lie awake at night and ask Bernie: ‘How did you do this? How did you live with it?’ She tells me to keep fighting and to not give in.”
Linda says she also talks to her late husband Brian Hudson, once the Nolans manager. He died at 60 of aggressive skin cancer in 2007 – only a year after Linda was first diagnosed with breast cancer.
She keeps his ashes next to her bed in her Blackpool home. “I can feel his presence,” she said. “And it’s like he’s there, physically putting his arms around me saying, ‘You’re going to be OK Lin’. I know I’ll see him again, as well as Bernie, my mum Maureen and dad Tommy. I hold on to that belief in the hard times.”
Linda has thought about how she would like her send-off to go. She wants
It’s like Brian’s physically there putting his arms around me. I know I’ll see him again LINDA ON THE COMFORT SHE GETS FROM HER DEAD HUSBAND