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| WILSON - BRITAIN'S BIGGEST WOMAN SLIMMER |
| WHEN Alysson Wilson took a look at herself in the full length mirror weighing a staggering 42 stone, she was so shocked she collapsed onto the floor.
Her doctor gave her just 12 months to live if she didn’t lose weight, so her husband Derek decided to take drastic action to save her life.
He devised excerise and eating plans to help her lose weight and his persistence and dedication has paid off after Mrs Wilson has lost a staggering 30 stone.
She has gone from weighing 42 stone to a slinm 12 stone - and her waist has gone from a massive 108 inches circumference - which needed two tape measures to measure it - to a svelte 30 inches.
Mrs Wilson, 33, an electrical appliance manager, said: ‘i have been given a completely new lease of life - and its all down to my wonderful husband.
‘If he hadn’t taken me in hand and helped me to lose all this weight, I would have been dead by now. |
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| WILLIAMS. MUM WHO IS THE FIRST WOMAN IN UK TO GIVE BIRTH ON HERCEPTIN WINS HER BREAST CANCER BATTLE |
| WHEN Kate Williams fell pregnant with her third child, she amazed the country’s medical profession.
Not only was she clinically infertile after gruelling chemotherapy treatment to treat breast cancer - but she was also the first woman in the UK to fall pregnant whilst taking the breast cancer treatment drug Herceptin. |
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| HARRIS. IM POUNDING THE STREETS TO FIND AN EGG DONOR. |
| WITH trembling hands I pinned the first poster up on the supermarket wall.
A lady stood behind me, reading over my shoulder. ‘Egg donor wanted,’ she read out loud.
Since then lots of people have come up to me whilst I’ve been putting up posters all around our home town in Blackwood, South Wales, to ask about what I’m doing.
My husband Dylan and I need an egg donor to be able to carry on with fertility treatment as my own eggs aren’t good enough.
It is our last desperate attempt in a six year battle to have a child of our own. |
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| FAGAN. I SPENT £22500 TO CHANGE MY BODY - BUT I WAS HAPPIER FAT. |
| WHEN Dawn Fagan decided she hated the way she looked, she decided to take drastic action.
She has spent a staggering £22,500 on surgery to give her the body she has always dreamed of.
She has had a gastric bypass operation to shed 15 stone, plus a tummy tuck, a thigh lift, liposuction and breast implants.
But amazingly, despite her fantastic new look, she said that she was happier as she was before - after it has cost her her marriage.
Mrs Fagan, 39, from Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, said: ‘I want people to see beyond how fantastic I look on the outside, and realise that on the inside I’m just as miserable as I was when I was fat.
‘They don’t see the pain behind it all. At least before, I may have been fat, but I still had my husband. |
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| NELSON. MY DREAM SAVED MY SISTER - AND MY DOG |
| I could see it all vividly. I was standing by a graveside with the rest of my family. We were all dressed in black and crying.
It was my sister Beverley’s funeral and we were all saying our goodbyes to the sister we had loved so much.
I woke up in a panic. The dream had been so vivid. All the family standing around the black hole in the ground, mum, and my four other brothers and sisters.
At least it was just a dream. But as I lay in bed, there was a nagging doubt in the back of my mind. Beverely hadn’t felt well yesterday - she had been coming down with a cold.
I jumped out of bed and spoke to my dad. Beverley was living with mum and dad, and I had to put my mind at rest. |
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| TAYLOR. MUM AND DAUGHTERS HAVE BREASTS REMOVED TO BEAT FAMILY CURSE. |
| THESE are the mum and her two daughters who have bravely gone under the surgeon’s knife to have boob jobs to save their lives.
Sheila Taylor had already battled through breast cancer once and when genetic tests showed that she had passed the gene onto daughters Caroline Brandon and Teresa Macrae, all three decided to take drastic action.
So all three underwent mastectomies. Mrs Taylor was the first to have a double mastectomy in November 2007.
Then the following week daughter Caroline went into hospital and underwent a double mastectomy, followed by her sister eight weeks later.
Caroline, 42, and Teresa, 38, then also had their ovaries removed too, as a double precaution. |
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| LONG. THREE SISTERS SHOW AMAZING BOND OF SISTERLY LOVE AND DEVOTION. |
| IT is a story of amazing true sisterly love between three devoted little girls.
When Lucy Long was diagnosed with leukaemia, her two sisters didn’t hesitate to step in and help.
Brave sister Charlotte, 12, donated her bone marrow for a transplant to save Lucy’s life, and because the gruelling radiotherapy treatment will have left her infertile, sister Bonnie, 11, has promised to donate her eggs when Lucy wants to try for a family in the future. |
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| HARRIS. TWIN SISTERS WHO SUFFERED YEARS OF INFERTILITY HEARTBREAK HAVE BABIES ON SAME DAY |
| WHEN Kristin Harris fell pregnant she didn’t know how to break the news to her twin sister.
Both the twins had suffered years of infertility problems and after giving birth to her first child with IVF after trying for ten years, Mrs Harris had fallen pregnant naturally with her second child.
Her twin Allison McGehee had been trying unsuccessfully for a second baby for seven years.
But two weeks after Mrs Harris had told her twin she was pregnant - Mrs McGehee had some astonishing news herself. She had also fallen pregnant naturally. |
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| PEPLOE. TEDDY BEAR TRAVELS 28,000 MILES AROUND THE WORLD TO HELP A LITTLE GIRL. |
| NOTCHING up 28,000 miles around the world in just three months is enough for any seasoned traveller.
And this is what this teddy bear has accomplished to help a little girl fund her treatment for a rare condition.
His travels have been orchestrated by Charmaine Peploe, whose daughter Katie suffers from extrapyramidal cerebral palsy, which means she cannot walk or talk.
Mrs Peploe, 35, and her husband Tony, 36, need to raise £10,000 for a special sensory room to help Katie, and they have embarked on a rather unusual way to do it.
Mrs Peploe has launched the website www.beararoundtheworld.com where people pay a donation to take Bear the small brown teddy bear on their travels with them.
So far Bear has travelled more than 28,000 miles since the campaign launch in October, and has visited far flung places such as Mexico, the Caribbean, California, Italy, France, London and Paris. |
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| CHURCH. LITTLE GIRLS WHO COULD BE KILLED BY AN ALARM CLOCK. |
| WITH their carefree smiles Chloe and Evie Church look the picture of health.
But tragically their lives could be cut short - by the simple ringing of an ALARM CLOCK.
The sisters have recently been diagnosed with a rare lifethreatening heart condition which means a sudden loud noise could cause their hearts to stop beating. |
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