Husband who raised £100,000 for cancer stricken wife to survive Christmas reveals she has died

A loving husband who raised £100,000 in a bid to help his cancer-stricken wife survive until Christmas has revealed that she has died.

Earlier this month, 40-year-old Ed Cusick started a desperate campaign to help wife Nina, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer last year.

It had been hoped that Nina would take part in clinical trials in 2017, but she was told to take life extending drug regorafenib, which is not available on the NHS, until then.

And while there was no guarantee of Nina being accepted into the trial, she had hoped to survive until Christmas Day to see young son Teddy opening his Christmas presents.

But in a heartbreaking Facebook post yesterday, Ed revealed that his wife had died.

He wrote: ‘It is with the worst pain I have ever felt that I am writing this to inform all our friends that I have tragically lost my Nina. She was taken to hospital after developing an infection last week.

‘She fought so hard for her life but the antibiotics had no effect, they were stopped and she died in my arms as I lay next to her in the hospital bed on Thursday.

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‘I am beyond destroyed. She was my world.’

Ed, a musician, gave up work for 22 months while he cared for his wife after she was diagnosed in 2015.

Nina was diagnosed with bowel cancer after suffering excruciating pain which she believed to be linked to her pregnancy.

But after the diagnosis, the cancer soon spread to her liver and bones, prompting the emergency caesarean birth of son Teddy after just six months.

Earlier this month, Ed started a campaign that raised £100,000 in a bid to secure one last Christmas with his wife.

He appealed: ‘I know it’s harder for people to donate close to Christmas coming as money is tight. But the only thing I want is to give my wife another chance to be here with me and our son.

‘So for the sake of my beautiful Nina’s Christmas wish, and also for the future memories and the experience of our little boy Teddy. I am having to plead again for help in anyway you possibly can.

‘I’m sorry to have to beg but I simply can’t ever give up as I love her and our son Ted so much. She is our all.’