Pick Me Up! Special

Cancer won’t STOP ME

Standing up from my seat to get ready for a walk with my golden retrievers Ciera and Polly, I suddenly got a severe pain in my lower back.

‘I think you need to see a doctor about this,’ my husband Colman, 60, told me.

It was a warm August day in 2020 and I had been getting a horrible pain in my back whenever I stood up for a few weeks now.

I hope the cancer hasn’t come back, I worried.

In December 2013, I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and it had been the worst time of my life.

Colman and I were terrified – we didn’t know what was ahead and felt scared for my life.

My son Daniel was only 17 at the time and I couldn’t take the thought of him losing

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