PURPOSE and positivity
Being informed that you have a carcinoid tumour in your stomach on the day you discover you’re pregnant with your first child would be a nightmare for any woman. But for Kara Rickard, host of George FM’s Breakfast, there was never a moment where she thought it wasn’t going to be fine. The 38-year-old Auckland mother of three considers herself a tenacious and positive person – so when she was delivered the news in 2010 that she’d need to have her stomach removed a mere four months after giving birth to her daughter, Haia, she simply rolled with the punches.
“I was like, ‘I’m going to be fine; I have different plans for my life’. I was in the frame of mind that it was
