IN LOVING MEMORY OF DONNA MARIE SKYVINGTON

Please meet Donna

She was a strong determined woman mother of 5 children, Jordan, Tyrone, Megan, Nadine, Jamie and my best friend and solemate.

She had such a beautiful family till we felt the hands of cancer.

Donna was diagnosed with cancer in December 2022 along with a existing condition of large cerebral aneurism and had already suffered a number of minor strokes.

Donna was so strong willed she faced cancer head on and the battle began.

Her diagnosis was large cell upper quadrant left lung cancer and after multiple cancelled surgery appointments by the hospital, she had treatment after a long delay.

Followed buy aggressive chemotherapy and radiotherapy she received 4 cycles of chemotherapy and two cycles of chemotherapy and radiotherapy together the treatment session would last 12 hours at a time some times and this was emotional and physical draining for Donna.

She then had the anguish of loosing all her hair and hiding away but this was hard for Donna as she was a very active and social personality and had many friends and was the limelight in the room and found it mentally very hard to deal with the effects of the cancer and the chemotherapy along with real bad memory due to the aneurism she would always forget things and even my name sometimes.

No mater what I would stand buy this brave woman with the most powerful determination and strength she had completed her chemotherapy and radiotherapy and was placed on to amunotheripy to rebuild her immune system.

After a month or so we had the all important consultation with the consultant for the final outcome had she beaten cancer.

Yes she had been given good news , she had done it cancer was under control in the windpipe and lung she was good to return every 6 months for a scan to check there was no changes.

Donna was over the moon.

She celebrated told her children and they was going to make future plans.

We waited on the ward for the results and the consultants came on to the word with one of them female doctors sobbing we knew it was bad but how bad.

The doctor said I'm so sorry there is nothing we can do your have 5 tumors in. Your brain they are inoperable and you are going to die.

Needles to say we was silent ,she was in shock with tears running down her face and I was trying to pull myself together to attempt to comfort her , but how do you comfort a person that's so selfless and never thinks of herself always her children before herself.

We asked the doctors how long do we have and they could. Not answer they was unable to determine how long she had to live.

Donna being the the woman she was said ok well let's get stuff sorted and make plans.

She was discharged from hospital with a referral to the hospice and wanted to stay at home at this point I have already been away from work looking after donna as she needed support as it was due to the after effects of the cancer treatment and was still weak.

She was home and within weeks was unable to walk and needed a hospital bed again at home , she fought stronger than every to make the most of life and to make memories with the grandchildren and children we was heartbroken as I could see her fading each day till the point she had became bed bound and within days had a massive stroke and 3 days later died in my arms knowing we had still not sorted her funeral arrangements and her life insurance company had cancelled her policy after finding out she had cancer.

I held her in my arms for 12 hours why the children tried to arrange a funeral directors to look after their mother. I was a compleat wreck from start to end it was 2 and half years of. The lung cancer and 3 months for the tumors to take her life,

We found a funeral directors that would wait for finance to be sorted .in the mean time I'm so distraught after 4 months of caring for donna day and night and we only had carers in in the last week and a half from severn hospice,

The hospice at home service was amazing and the care staff were so supportive and gave me that extra support I needed . I was extremely exhausted and non functioning after her death and still am.

She passed away peacefully and pain free on the 20th March 2025 at 01:41

As a family are lost brokenhearted and emotionally destroyed.

My aim is to help the family with funding for the cremation and church service and possibly a wake to celebrate Donna's selfless life of loving the children, due to myself not being at work and using all savings to help make Donna's life at the end more comfortable the family will struggle to meet the financial demands and asked for your support to give this amazing women the send off she deserves.

Thank you for your support and any donations as they intend to pay for the funeral directors and the church service and make a donation to severn hospice for the hospice at home support at the end.

Thank you again for reading and you wish to make a donation please do as this special lady and the staff from severn hospice deserve it.