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Terminally ill mom learns to drive to fulfill her dying wish of driving her son to school

This week, Lucy Johns, 30, will be driving her son to school for the first time.

The terminally ill mother-of-two passed her driving exam after an instructor offered her free driving lessons. Even a crash during a last-minute lesson on the night before her test didn't stop Johns from taking it.

"I was so nervous for my test. But nothing was going to stop me." Johns tells British tabloid The Daily Mirror.

It was her dying wish to drive her 6-year-old son, Stanley, to St. Paul's Roman Catholic Primary in Plymouth, England.

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"That was the main reason I decided to drive but also to do the simple things like driving to the park just so I can watch my kids play," Johns tells the Daily Mail. "It's easy to take these moments for granted but they have become absolutely precious for me."

Johns has incurable cancer of the breast, bone and liver. Doctors discovered cancer shortly after Johns gave birth to her daughter Lillie-Lou, now 2.

While doctors haven't given Johns long to live — her cancer has been classified as Stage Four Terminal — she determines to fight for as long as she can.

"My cancer is incurable and I am classed as terminally ill but I am having treatment so I can live and be a mum for as long as possible," she says .

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Johns requested help from driving instructors with an advertisement in The Herald paper last November claiming she was unable to pay for lessons.

Driving instructor Andy Roberts stepped up to the plate and volunteered 45 hours of lessons.

"I have never met anyone as nice as him, doing something for nothing like that," Johns says of her instructor. "He is just an average person and it was amazing he went out of the way to help me, losing the money he must have lost."

With her new license in hand, Johns will be doing the school run this week using a borrowed family car.

"I am so excited now. I wanted to get this so much, but I did not think I would," she says.