SURREY - A Surrey woman snagged the Now's special Mother's Day package to share with her out-of-town Mom, who is currently battling a rare form of skin cancer.
Lana Kuyhoven is hoping to get her mother, Diane Lust, out to Surrey from her Kelowna home in late May to share with her a package that includes a $400 family photo shoot from Moments In Time Photography by Jamie Allport, a makeover from Alejandra Thomasson of Hair and Beauty BC and a bouquet of flowers from Raj at Didi's Flowers.Lust was diagnosed with vulva cancer, a type of skin cancer, last year and was given up to two years to live just six months ago. The cancer has spread to her lungs, and "she can barely walk 75 metres without getting winded," according to her youngest daughter. Lust lives in Kelowna, while her children reside in the Lower Mainland.Lust's reluctance to move close to her children while battling the rare form of cancer, Kuyhoven said, is just part of her characteristic stubbornness."She's far too stubborn to move," saidKuyhoven. "She says she doesn't want to be a burden on anyone, so she won't move here. Even when she got knee replacements, she didn't want any help."Winning the Now's Mother's Day contest "means the world" to Kuyhoven and her siblings, who want to honour their mother by creating one last memory."It's the world," Kuyhoven exclaimed. "We're trying to do everything for her before she passes.... I want the memory for my brothers and sisters."