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The husband of a beloved mum who suddenly died has spoken of his grief as he honours her memory on the first anniversary of her death. Emily Moss - an ‘incredible mum’ and a ‘very giving person’ from Burnage - died in November 2024 from sudden heart failure caused by a condition she developed during pregnancy. Her husband, Nathan, 34, knew he wanted to do something in his wife's memory to reflect the compassion she showed in her work and life, and decided to climb Mount Toubkal - North Africa’s highest peak - to raise money for Trafford Domestic Abuse Services (TDAS), a charity Emily used to work for. You can donate here. Speaking of Emily's heart condition, he said: “When she gave birth to Isobel we found out she had this heart condition. It was probably the hardest time we had together, because we’d gone from being just us two to then having a newborn, and then finding out about Emily’s heart condition on top of that. “Her condition was managed through medication. Her last check-up before she died was in August, and by all accounts everything was where it should be.” But on November 9, 2024, Emily, 33, suffered sudden heart failure caused by peripartum cardiomyopathy after dropping off her then four-year-old at a dancing lesson. Nathan said: “We always knew it was a possibility that it could happen, but because of the positive results from the tests, it wasn’t really something that was ever at the forefront of our minds. “Emily had taken Isobel to dancing, came home, and went upstairs to get ready to go shopping with her mum. Her mum thought she was taking a bit too long, went upstairs and she’d had a heart attack on the floor.” Nathan was at work in Birmingham when Emily’s mum found her collapsed upstairs. When he got to the hospital in Greater Manchester, he knew something was wrong. He said: “I wasn’t told that she’d died. I was told that she’d collapsed. But when I got to the hospital, I was ushered into a side room, and I knew she’d died, because if she hadn’t, I’d have been taken straight to her. “We had the funeral in December and it was packed. There were about 300 people there. People couldn’t get in and they were standing outside in the freezing cold just to hear the service. “It was a nice reminder of how liked she was, how many people’s lives she’d touched.” The couple - who met at high school and started going out when they were 16 and 17 - got married on November 27, 2018 and were planning to have a second child before tragedy struck. Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE Now Nathan is trying to keep her memory alive and ‘be more Emily’ by raising money for the domestic abuse charity. He said: “She was a very giving person. She never really held a grudge. She would move mountains to help other people - often to her own demise. “I’m trying to be a bit more Emily - just being a bit more open, helping people, being a bit more patient. “Being a mum was probably the best thing about her, because all the patience she had for everybody else went into being a parent. She was great. I didn’t know what I was doing, and she was just great. “She was an incredible parent, an incredible mum and that’s credit to her mum as well. “One of the hardest things I’ve struggled with since she died is doing things the way that Emily would have done it. “And the hardest thing for me to learn - and that I’m still learning every day - is how to do my little girl’s hair. Regrettably, as a dad, it’s something that I just let her mum do. Her best friend actually booked me onto a hairdressing course for dads.” Nathan will climb Mount Toubkal in Morocco on November 28 - 29 with one of his close friends, Will Sargison. The GoFundMe page he set up for the climb has already received over £2,000 in donations - which will go directly to TDAS - in the week that it’s been live. He said: “These two weeks are always tricky - my birthday's on the 24th, our anniversary is the 27th, and then the anniversary of her passing is on the 9th. “It’s a nice way for me to remember Emily, and for other people to remember her too - by helping others.” Nathan and his family are also surprising Isobel and her cousins with a trip to Disneyland on the weekend of the anniversary of Emily’s passing.
