“Dr Guichet was open about the kinds of things that could go wrong. Nerve injuries, blood clots, the possibility of bones not fusing back together.
"She's locked in - she cannot feed herself."Mrs Hercock refused to allow her mum to be taken to another home "with no preparation or care plan" and threatened to contact police if she was taken without her consent.
The 51-year-old also lodged an urgent adult safeguarding referral with the council."When I got to the home... the staff seemed to be in shock...it was like walking into a bomb site," said Mrs Hercock, who had to make the five-hour journey from Surrey."It felt like an emergency situation."
Mrs Hercock said the care at Hazel Garth had always been "absolutely phenomenal" and a "God send".But she was not prepared to accept that she had been given 24 hours to find a suitable home for her mum and has had to move her to Surrey.
She said: "In the absence of any kind of plan or transition the only conclusion I came to is 'my mum needs to come to me'.
"She knows what's happening, she grabbed hold of my hand and mouthed the word 'home'."At the end of 2005, the singer was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, which returned in 2015 before he went into remission.
He co-founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation alongside his wife to help recruit bone marrow donors at live music shows.It also involved Peters and fellow musicians taking treks to the Himalayas, to peaks including Mount Kilimanjaro and Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon, in his native Wales.
The charity's director, Kirsty Thomson, called him a "brilliant advocate" of the NHS, adding that he "loved life like nobody else I know".The 2007 concert was billed the "world's highest", watched by 3m online. In 2017, his Big Busk involved a walk between cancer wards at each north Wales hospital and ended on the summit of Snowdon.