Mum with terminal cancer flooded with birthday messages from online strangers

A mum with terminal cancer was overwhelmed when she received more than 9,000 supportive messages on Twitter from kind strangers wishing her happy birthday. 

Alexandra Brown discovered she had bowel cancer in December last year and after having surgery she thought she was on her way to recovery. 

However, just a few weeks later she was handed the devastating news that her cancer is terminal. 

So her son Darroch Brown took to Twitter and asked people to send his mother a message wishing her well for her 45th birthday in a bid to cheer her up.   

His tweet said: “It pains me to say we just got the awful news that my mum’s cancer is terminal. For her birthday I wanted to show her how many people are wishing her well. 

“So wherever you are, RTing, replying with a message (or video) saying happy birthday to Alex would make her year. Thank you.”