But she expects to be knocked back as she begins five months of exhausting chemotherapy treatment. The devoted mum began chemotherapy within weeks and, although it had always been a possibility, was told a fortnight before the life-changing surgery that she would lose her leg from the hip.Īfter the surgery, Joy returned home and was starting to adapt to the changes and challenges of losing a leg. Medics found that the tumour - which was already a rare osteosarcoma - was a more uncommon sub-type and among the 10% which are a higher grade. It's never going to be nice and it will be difficult to get your head around but knowing the specialists are aiming to cure it did make a massive difference.' 'It made everything seem a lot brighter for us and more hopeful. He said he thought it was a standard osteosarcoma - he was quite quick to say the aim would be to cure it. 'When we saw the specialist at the Freeman on the Friday he said they were aiming to cure it. 'From looking at that image we thought the outcome was going to be really bleak - that this would be my last Christmas and thinking how we deal with things from there.

The GP did show us the MRI images in the consultation and looking at it, the tumour was huge and looked like it had taken up the whole of my thigh. 'I wasn't overly surprised that was the diagnosis they came back with.

I realised I had symptoms of a sarcoma so spoke to my GP about it. Joy, whose degree was specialised in oncology, said: 'When it's something you're used to dealing with a lot you can almost become a little bit disengaged with it. She was referred for MRI scans which confirmed the tumour just four days before Christmas. Joy Cole after the life changing surgery (Image: Joy Cole) She spoke with her GP and within a month the lump had grown significantly. Joy was on maternity leave in October last year when she noticed that the tissue in her thigh 'seemed different'. It comes as fellow school mums have banded together to help raise funds to support Joy, her husband Andrew and their four children - nine-year-old Emily, twins Alfie and Daniel, seven, and nine-month-old Alice. READ MORE: Boro boss Steve Gibson's swanky Rockcliffe Hall in running for top tourism gong Now, the mum-of-four faces another five months of chemotherapy but remains inspirationally positive. An MRI scan showed a large sarcoma in her left thigh and the 38-year-old, who works as a radiotherapist at James Cook University Hospital, says she feared she wouldn't see next Christmas.īut within days, specialists told her they aimed to cure the cancer and Joy has undergone gruelling chemotherapy treatment and a life-changing surgery to remove the tumour, and her left leg. It was just days before Christmas last year that Joy Cole and her loved ones received the devastating blow. Thankfully, what she lacks in experience she makes up for in bravery and loyalty.An inspirational mum who feared she was about to spend her last Christmas with her children is battling a rare cancer and has undergone life-changing surgery. nsl-button-default div.nsl-button-label-container Sandrider and StarChaser been worse, but i just realized, if she is mad, yeah! This makes me happy. Way they expressed their todhunter moon summary for each other!!!!!!!!!! Biographical information Published in March 2005, the first book, Magyk, became an international bestseller after it appeared at number one on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Taking place seven years after the events of the original Septimus Heap series, PathFinder tells. I totally agree!!!! ', Marcia Overstrand is the powerful, ambitious and wilful ExtraOrdinary Wizard of the series. South Bay Lakers, Javascript is not enabled in your browser. They fly to The Castle in the Dragon Boat, engaging in aerial combat with Simon on the way. The antagonist of the third book, Physik (published in March 2007), is the 500-year-old spirit of Queen Etheldredda, who is accidentally released by Silas Heap. flex: 0 0 auto I'm really looking forward to seeing the whole Septimus world up there on the big screen coming to life. The Palace is the royal residence, home to Jenna, Sarah and Silas. But in faraway lands, the brilliant blue stone is crumbling to dust. Younger people to still be happy reading PathFinder once i 've read book. Line-height: 20px Flyte has a map showing the Badlands and the Borderlands in the north.

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