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A dedicated friend is determined to do all she can to help a mum-of-three make memories with her family after a shock cancer diagnosis. Kirsty Parnell, of Newark, was diagnosed with liver cancer after she went to hospital in February thinking she had a hernia. She was given just months to live after tests showed she had a cancer which had started in her bowels and had also spread to her lungs. Her friend of nearly a decade, Nicola Stafford, has set up a GoFundMe page to help the family — Kirsty’s partner Steve Harris and their three girls, aged nine ,five and five — make the most of the time t…