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08.06.2023 - 09:41 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A woman who lost both parents to cancer while dealing with her own diagnosis has decided to stop wearing a watch - so she can embrace life.
Both Eric Duffus, 76, and Elizabeth Duffus, 72, died from cancer while daughter Gill Duffus-Simpson, 44, was dealing with her own illness. All three were diagnosed within three months of each other at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011.
But Gill Duffus-Simpson, a mature student, from Moray, says she doesn't want cancer to define her. And she's taken the unusual step of taking off her watch permanently - to try and appreciate time more.
She said: "When I got my diagnosis I was catapulted out of this world - I went into a bubble. I was present on earth but I didn't feel like I was present. It felt like my world had paused. I live my life in a positive way now - we can't change the past. But we can develop resilience and coping mechanisms to how we respond in life.
"Now I go to yoga, I go to the gym. But before my diagnosis I would say, 'I don't have time for that'. But what is time? None of us know how much time we have left on the earth. I don't wear a watch - because what is the point?"
Eric was the first to find out he had the disease, when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Gill was then diagnosed with breast cancer two months later and Elizabeth, a retired social worker, was also confirmed as having the same illness as her daughter just a fortnight later.
Gill moved back home to be with her parents - and they renamed their home Ward 17. Elizabeth beat her initial diagnosis but, when she went in for a hip replacement, was told cancer had got into her bones. She passed away in November 2016, aged 72.
Gill said: "The triple diagnosis was horrific. It was like something out of a
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