Wife and mother of 2 boys, diagnosed with vaginal cancer in 2015 aged 44. Radiotherapy given as a cautionary measure, as it was supposedly contained. In January 2016, I was told it had come back, spread to pelvis and lungs, nothing that could be done and to ‘go away and enjoy the time I had left’. Obviously, I didn’t take that lying down and have spent 2 years using our own money (and fundraising) to have treatment overseas, and I’ve used alternative medicine/treatments to good effect. So despite being given a dreadful diagnosis, I’m still here and really proud of myself for not listening to them, and giving up or giving in
