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Tragedy strikes family as cancer patient's beloved French bulldog dies just fifteen minutes after its owner

Stuart Hutchison was diagnosed with a tumor in his brain back in 2011. Despite going into remission, it relapsed in 2014 and again in 2018, when the deadly disease spread to his bones. He but had a friend in Nero, his bulldog.
UPDATED JAN 4, 2020

In a heartwrenching turn of events, a beloved pet dog passed away just 15 minutes after his owner succumbed to cancer. Stuart Hutchison was diagnosed with a tumor in the brain back in 2011. It relapsed in 2014 and again in 2018, when the deadly disease spread to his bones, Daily Mail reported.

During the ordeal, the 25-year-old had found a best friend in Nero, his two-year-old French bulldog. 

Hutchison married Danielle, 22, in January this year. However, he passed away at home in Scotland on August 11.

The loss was already too much to bear for the family when they found his dog had "ruptured his spine" and died shortly after at the vets. According to the report, the couple also had another dog Nala, 4, and Amelia, who is Nala and Nero's pup. On August 11, Nero died just 15 minutes after his owner in a tragic twist of fate.

"Stuart died about 1.15 pm that day, and Nero died roughly 15 minutes later," Hutchison's devastated mother, Fiona Conaghan, said. "He had three dogs, but him and Nero were like one man and his dog. Nero was the dog which was always with him."

"Danielle was heartbroken to have lost both of them, but she has been so strong," she said of Hutchison's wife. "We got Stuart home four weeks ago because he wanted to die at home because that's where he was born. We cared for him at home. We expected it but it is still tough. It is still a shock and traumatic when it finally comes."

Danielle, a pharmacy assistant, got engaged to Stuart in 2017 after dating for four years. The couple lived in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, before Stuart's condition worsened and he chose to spend his final month with his mother.

Conaghan, who cared for her son 24x7 unto his tragic death, said it was not unexpected and that Stuart was never in remission. "He went into hospital to start chemo at the end of 2018 and he was then having scans every three months," she explained. "At a scan in March, they said the chemo was working. Him and Danielle went on holiday to Spain in May and he started getting a pain in his hand. He went for a check-up and they were convinced there was nothing wrong."

"But then by June, it started to affect his whole arm and that's when they did a scan and saw the cancer had taken over his whole brain and had spread to his bones and his pelvis," she continued. "We always knew this was a possibility. Stuart was a strong, loveable character, everyone loved him."

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