Ben Fletcher, who is about to start working for the York Hospital trust as a registered nurse at Nelson's Court of Tadcaster Road is still coming to terms with the death of his mum, Sue, from a rare form of cancer aged just 52 on Saturday, April 26.
Before her illness Sue had worked as a hospital cleaner and she died just days after being diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia.
"Mum suffered with her mental health, for 13 years - she had schizoaffective disorder - and she is the reason I trained as a nurse so that I could better support her," said the 33-year-old.
"She lived in Coventry and I was in the process of trying to bring her to York when she had a fall and ended up in hospital. They did her bloods a rapid cancer known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia - she died only days later.
"The day before my mum died I got my nursing qualification.
"We are all so shocked. We started to talk and plan what mum wanted to do as we thought we had months after she got her diagnosis.
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