The last year, Sam Walker received a video message from his mother.

She ended up moving to the United States and was recently installed in her new house

in Arizona.

The subject of the video message was do not watch with the children.

I thought she was planning a surprise trip for one of my kids' birthdays.

Instead, she told me she had lung cancer.

She needed to have a major operation to remove a tumour.

Although the tumor, or tumor, was already quite large.

Susan, the mother of Sam, said that the doctors had hope that the operation could go well.

I'm my mother's only child.

She raised me in England.

But she moved to Australia when I was 22 years old.

So, her operation was in Perth, which is in Western Australia.

That's a 20-hour plane trip from where I live in the United States.

But no one else could help her after the operation.

Only me.

So, of course, I flew to be with her.

I had to wait alone in the depressing hospital cafeteria for seven hours.

Because I waited for so long, I became very worried.

When the doctor finally came to talk to me, he explained that the tumour was very aggressive.

My mom only had a few months to live.

And I had to tell her this bad news.

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