I feel guilty for beating cancer as hubby died

Shona opens heart on losing William to disease

- ELIANA DAVIS

A WIDOW has told of having “survivor’s guilt” after her husband died of cancer while she was having chemotherapy that helped save her life. 

Shona Maclaren, 34, was diagnosed with cervical cancer after abnormally heavy bleeding which, she said, was initially dismissed by a doctor as postpartum symptoms.

But as she underwent treatment, hubby William, 41, was diagnosed with advanced stage four bowel cancer. Just nine days later he died.

William had been suffering abdominal pain and inflammation but thought it was due to his preexisting ulcerative colitis.

Shona is now in remission and thinks about why she was “picked” to survive – and worries about what she’ll tell her kids Thea, six, and Mason, two.