A Dundee woman has lost her battle with cancer the day after her mother’s funeral.
Elaine McNeil, who was 47, previously suffered a brain haemorrhage and passed away from ovarian cancer. Her death came just a day after her mother Loraine Bruce, who was 72, succumbed to stomach cancer.
Elaine’s husband Barrie revealed the devastating loss came after he had undergone bowel surgery.
Barrie, 48, of Downfield, said: “Inside, I’m crumbling. We were able to deal with Elaine’s brain haemorrhage, but the cancer came out of nowhere.
“She was my queen for 30 years and I loved her very much. At my mother-in-law’s funeral I thought to myself ‘I’m going to be back here shortly’, but I didn’t think it would be so soon.”
In March 2009, Elaine suffered a brain haemorrhage which left her paralysed from the neck up on her left side and beneath the shoulder on her right.
She spent the next 17 months in hospital recovering, before returning home in a wheelchair.
She was then diagnosed with cancer in September last year.
Her daughters Jordyn and Hollie had also been in a car crash in May last year, which saw them admitted to Ninewells Hospital.
At the time, Barrie was in the high-dependency unit at the same hospital, recovering from a second serious operation for the bowel condition diverticulitis.
He described his wife as “very brave” and “a fighter”.