From the mouths of babes: This is what it’s like to be diagnosed with a terminal illness before you’ve finished primary school - Bhekisisa

But when Herbert asked the nurses in her ward if they thought prescribing morphine would lead to addiction, they’d all said yes.Not a single one betrayed any doubt.

“Opposite each sick child is a mom, propping herself up on her elbow, just watching their child – for hours”, Herbert says.At the end of the rubs, nurses would place one hand on a mother’s back and the other just below her collar bones, Herbert explains. The nurse would then put pressure the mom’s chest from both sides, pushing hard.

One sibling Lowry counselled had no idea his sister was ill, and instead thought his mother and sister went on a holiday without him every so often, when in reality they were going to hospital for cancer treatment.

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