THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE WITH CANCER
WOMAN'S OWN|October 28, 2024
More than 12,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumours each year in the UK. Two mums tell us how the cruel disease changed their lives forever
- KERRY HARDEN
THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE WITH CANCER

My girl was smiling until the end’

Emily Morton, 27, from Louth, Lincolnshire Stroking my little girl’s brow, I watched her sleeping peacefully, clutching her Elsa doll. At just two years old, Lily was such a happy, smiley little girl who loved Disney princesses and singing nursery rhymes. She meant everything to me and her dad Josh, 27. But now, as I watched her sleeping in the hospital bed, I wondered how my precious little girl, so full of innocence, could fight something so deadly.

It was early 2022 and Josh and I had just been told that Lily had a cancerous brain tumour - a stage three ependymoma.

It had come following months of tests, after Josh and I had noticed that Lily kept stumbling, and her head would tilt to the left side. She had had surgery to remove the tumour, and now a biopsy had revealed our worst fears.

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