Just a girl who loves to dance
Kimberley Hattersley-Barton, 22, Wakefield
Watching my mum shuffle through old family photos, I couldn’t help but be curious.
‘When was this one taken?’ I asked, passing her an old snap.
Tubes in my nose, wires dangling around me, I was quite clearly in hospital.
Yet, I didn’t look fazed at all.
‘We took this in December 1998,’ my mum Claire, then 43, sighed, thumbing the picture.
‘That was during your cancer treatment.’
See, when I was 13 months old, I was diagnosed with a rare childhood soft-tissue cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma.
