With Emmerdale’s Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) battling a tumour big enough to change her personality and cause terrifying seizures, the last thing she needs is more bad news.
Moira got the news she was dreading when she learned the real reason for her sudden aggressive nature and her self-awareness leaving the building was that a big old tumour has taken up residence in her brain.
While on the one hand she’s glad to know her psychotic episode in the barn which caused a fire that nearly killed her and Ruby was actually due to her ‘house guest’, she’s now facing her own mortality.
Every option to treat her carries huge risks, but so far she’s opted for leaving it well alone and seeing what happens.
This is proving tough for her family, with Cain (Jeff Hordley) unable to accept her decision to sit and do nothing, while her young sons now believe they’re going to lose their mum.
Moira is recuperating at home but is still mentally fragile and still having seizures. Because of this, the family are rallying around to ensure she’s not left on her own – much to her disgust.
Moira is put out when Matty (Ash Palmisciano) arrives ready to move in. She doesn’t want to be babied, but her behaviour is causing everyone concern and her son feels he needs to be there.
Mack (Lawrence Robb) is also trying to help hold things together, but he’s stressed when he discovers that the sheep have escaped, and it’s Moira who gets the blame. She can no longer be trusted, and this only goes to confirm that she needs to be watched 24/7.
Matty and Mack head out to find the animals, but they are met with a grim scene; several of the sheep are lying prone and not moving.
On closer inspection, all but one is dead, and the final sheep is in a bad way.
Moira is horrified that she could have done this and is faced with her new painful reality – she’s an animal killer and can no longer be a farmer.
It’s a terrifying escalation in Moira’s health when she can’t even remember killing all her own sheep and this strengthens Cain’s argument that she needs the brain surgery ASAP.
What does this new development mean for her?
