The family of a woman who died within two weeks of being diagnosed with cancer – and a month after burying her stillborn daughter - have spoken of their total devastation.
Dawn Jackson, 36, believed she was perfectly healthy until her unborn baby died in the womb in March.
In the midst of her grief, more horrific news followed - she was suffering from cancer in her liver, spleen and bowel - and her condition was terminal.
Knowing she had always wanted to get married, her fiancé Dean proposed immediately - and friends and relatives rallied around her to organise the wedding.
But the couple were only able to enjoy two days of married life before she passed away earlier this month - just 14 days after being diagnosed.
Mr Jackson, from Blackpool, said: 'The diagnosis was completely out of the blue but we thought we'd have at least a few weeks.
'But everything happened so quickly, her health deteriorated rapidly.
'I wanted to do everything I could to make her happy and comfortable so I proposed, as she'd always wanted to get married.
'A lot of photos from our wedding day show her smiling which says a lot, because she was in agony. Dawn looked stunning in her dress.
'Our wedding day was perfect in every way you could imagine - apart from the circumstances.'
Mr Jackson, a bus driver, has now been left to bring up his son from a previous relationship, as well as the couple's children Aydia, four and Karla, one, after his whole world fell apart in less than two months.
He said: 'I've so many happy memories of our lives, holidays and days out with children.
'Dawn was a wonderful person, I loved her personality.'
'She took to my son straight away and she was so passionate about her job as carer.
'I knew straight away she was the one for me.'
Mr Jackson met Dawn, a carer, eight years ago and this year they were expecting their third child together.
But in March, and at eight months pregnant, Mrs Jackson began experiencing serious abdominal pains.
She was taken to hospital for a check-up but a routine scan found no heartbeat for her baby - forcing her to give birth to their stillborn baby girl.
The family buried baby Jaycee-May on March 20, but just weeks later Mrs Jackson collapsed.
Tests revealed she had a blood clot in her chest, restricting oxygen getting to her brain.
Mr Jackson said she had suffered a series of health problems since the stillbirth.
She had been coughing and had being unable to keep food down, losing five stone in weight.
Further examinations found a mass on Mrs Jackson's liver and on April 20, one month after the couple had buried their baby girl, she was given the devastating news she had terminal liver cancer that had spread to her bowel and spleen.
Mr Jackson said: 'We were devastated.
'But Dawn faced it in the same way she faced losing the baby - there were tears but she said she had to be strong for the children
'She'd always wanted to get married so she was over the moon when I proposed.
'But at that point we thought she'd have months, even years. Not days. I think I'd fooled myself she had longer to live.'
Mrs Jackson died in the early hours on May 4 with her husband at her bedside.
Her funeral is set to take place this week.
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