My husband said he’d found a cure for his terminal illness. A year later he was gone

Julie and Nigel in their early years together (Picture: Julie Casson)‘Life-limiting’. ‘No cure’. These were the words the doctor used to explain that my husband, Nigel, had three to five years to live, and I felt numb.Moments like this are not at all what you imagine.There’s no darkening sky, no rumble of thunder. Your heart doesn’t miss a beat and the world doesn’t hold its breath. Everything remains the same.And yet, for us, nothing would ev