When riding is a lifeline
“WHEN I’m in hospital, I’m poorly Adele, I’m a patient. But when I compete, I’m the same as everyone else — and that means everything.
“I trot down that centre line and for four minutes, I’m not someone who’s dying, or someone to feel sorry for, I’m just me. I’ve got a bit of me back.”
It is 10 years since Adele Edwards was diagnosed with, and treated for, ovarian cancer. But this spring, she was told it had returned, and spread.
“They can’t cure me but they’re trying to keep me going as long as possible,” she says, from hospital where she is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
But the shattering diagnosis, the treatment, the second major surgery — “they cut me open from my belly button to my pubic bone” — and the prognosis have not been enough to keep Adele away from her horses.
