Marie Curie gave me the strength to let mum die with dignity; RECORD WOMAN: Designer Betty Davies' debt to the cancer nurses.(Features)

From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: November 10, 1997| Author: Barry, Nicola | Copyright information

Betty Davies looked on in dismay as her father died of cancer in hospital on a public ward.

The theme music from Coronation Street could be heard blaring from a TV set at one end of the ward.

And, for Betty, the memory of his death left a permanent scar.

When - in 1990 - Betty's mother, Alice, was diagnosed as having cancer too, Betty vowed the same thing would not happen again.

She decided to look after her mother at home.

"I...

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