If it weren’t for photographs, it would be hard to believe the woman lying in the bed is the same girl who danced on stage, beamed radiantly on her wedding day and joyfully cuddled her baby boy.
At just 26 years old, Carli van Aswegen is unrecognisable as the young woman she once was – full of energy with her whole life stretching ahead of her.
She has accepted that her days on Earth are numbered after receiving a devastating diagnosis just over a year ago. She has cancer of the brainstem and in December doctors told her there was little more that they could do for her.