MY SISTERS GAVE ME A BABY
As I listened to what the doctor was saying, I was lost for words. ‘I’m afraid there’s no time to harvest your eggs, Samantha,’ the consultant said. ‘If you postpone treatment, you will die.’
It was July 2003, and aged 27, I’d just been diagnosed with stage 3C ovarian cancer.
IT FELT LIKE A MIRACLE’
After suffering with severe stomach pains, doctors initially believed I had a cyst on my ovaries and scheduled me for surgery but, when they’d opened me up, my reproductive organs were riddled with cancer. I needed to start chemotherapy immediately. It would destroy my body, I
