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| HUGGINS. DEVOTED SISTERS BOTH CANCEL THEIR WEDDING DAY TO SAVE ONE FROM BRAIN TUMOUR. |
| DEVOTED sisters Melissa and Katrina Huggins have both cancelled their wedding days in order to try and save Melissa from a brain tumour.
Both the sisters had been excited about getting married, and had already booked venues, churches and chosen wedding dresses.
But after Melissa was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, her only hope of survival is treatment costing more than £100,000 in the USA.
So BOTH the sisters have decided to cancel their big days and instead put all their wedding day funds towards paying for lifesaving treatment. |
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| HURT. THE BRAVE MOTHER WHO SAVED HER OWN LIFE. |
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WHEN Cerys Hurt’s mother and grandmother died of breast cancer, she wanted to see her own children grow up.
So she took the brave decision of having both her own healthy breasts removed in a bid to beat the disease in case she too had inherited their faulty gene.
Doctors tried to persuade her not to have the operation as there was no sign of breast cancer developing and she was only 35.
But she was adamant, and in May this year underwent the operation. |
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| HARRISON. MY SON WAS GIVEN A DEATH SENTENCE AT XMAS. |
| ‘Your son has just eight weeks to live,’ warned the doctor.
I just couldn’t take it in. It was three days after Christmas Day, and we had noticed some bruises down Jack’s legs as we sat celebrating Christmas Day, but I had never imagined it could be anything so serious.
But whilst other families were celebrating their Christmas’s, I was being told my son had just eight weeks to live. It was devastating.
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| QUILTER. BRIDE SAVED FROM BREAST CANCER BY HER WEDDING DRESS. |
| WHEN Christina Quilter tried on her wedding dress she felt like a princess in the crystal corset and folds of white satin.
But as she bent down to pick up the skirt, a searing pain shot through her right breast.
The ribbed corset of the dress was digging into her, and she thought thats what had caused the pain.
But as she stood up and adjusted the corset the pain got worse.
The pain remained for the next two weeks, so she went to see her GP who referred her for a scan with a specialist.
Tests revealed that the 27-year-old mother of three had breast cancer. |
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| FAHY. MIRACLE BABY - AFTER A 20 YEAR WAIT. |
| AS Julie Fahy cuddles her daughter Roisin she knows she is nothing short of a miracle.
Mrs Fahy and her husband Chris were trying for a baby for more than 20 years and had endless IVF and fertlity treatments in their desperate attempt to conceive.
After two decades of trying, they decided to give up their quest to become parents - but then Mrs Fahy made an unbelievable discovery.
She had fallen pregnant naturally, and their daughter was born in March this year, weighing a healthy 7lb1oz. ( 3.25 kg ) |
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| BIRCH. A SPECIAL PROMISE. DYING CANCER MUM ASKS SISTER TO HAVE HER DAUGHTER |
| I can always remember the day when my mum Jackie came back from hospital with my auntie Nikki.
They sat me down in the living room at our house where me and mum lived together, just the two of us after she divorced my dad when I was very little. I could tell by their faces that it was something serious - but nothing prepared me for the bombshell that was about to be dropped on me.
Mum told me that she had just been told by the doctors that she had breast cancer. Mum couldn’t believe it herself - and I was shocked too. But mum was such a strong person, and I knew I had to keep it together for her too. I had to be strong just like her. |
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| GORDON. NEW LUNGS FOR MY WEDDING DAY |
| I got the call from the hospital to say a new pair of lungs had been found, but I couldn’t get too excited.
I’d already received five such calls in the two years that I had been on the transplant waiting list, and I knew that time was running out for me.
My boyfriend Scott had asked me to marry him on my 21st birthday, when I’d just been told that I needed some new lungs, mine were giving up on me after being born with cystic fibrosis. |
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| LAWRENCE WE PRODDED OUR BABY TO KEEP HER ALIVE |
| THIS is the baby whose parents had to prod her for TEN DAYS whilst she was critically ill in hospital to keep her alive.
Tiny Chloe Lawrence was born four weeks premature and at just three weeks old was diagnosed with the killer bug meninigitis.
Doctors didn’t think she would survive and for ten days she stopped breathing so many times that her parents had to prod her dozens of time just to keep her alive. |
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| MCKEEN. EIGHT INTERNET STRANGERS SAVED MY WEDDING DAY |
| ‘I think I’m going to have to cancel my whole wedding day,’ I typed into the chatroom.
I’d met eight girls on the wedding internet chat room site that I’d been on for months now, and we all chatted together online most days.
Some of the girls were already married and had stayed on the chatroom site to help out other nervous brides. A couple of them, like me, were excitedly planning their big day and needed some advice and ideas.
My husband William and I had been planning our wedding day for five months. We had met five years previously when we were set up on a blind date. William’s brother was dating a friend of mine and they arranged for us to meet one evening at his house. |
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| BURTON. PARALYSED GIRL DEFIES DOCS TO WALK AGAIN. |
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AS little Georgia Burton lay paralysed in her hospital bed, doctors warned her devastated parents that she may not even survived.
Georgia, now 11, had contracted Guillain Barre Syndrome, a diseae of the nervous system that can be triggered just by something as mild as a sore throat or flu.
In rare cases it can lead to total paralysis, which is what happened in Georgia’s case. She lay in her hospital bed unable to move a muscle, and even unable to speak.
Georgia was on a life support machine and doctors told her mother Kerry Burton that she may not survive.
If she did recover, it could take upto five years for her to be able to walk again. |
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