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Friday May 15, 2015
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No. 685
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THERE’S A NEW SHERRIFF IN TOWN ... AND WE SAY HELLO TO JO TOO
General and local election round-up: p4-5
Cancer victim Tina Drury was told in December that she had only months to live... but the words of her distraught daughter are driving her on to greet the birth of her first grandchild...
RACE FOR LIFE... Tina, third left, with daughters Kelly and Lucy and members of the ‘Tribe’ A WOMAN from Dewsbury with terminal cancer hopes to raise thousands of pounds by finishing a 5km walk for charity on Sunday.
finish.” Also in Tina’s Tribe are her best friend Anna Ignaczak and Lucy’s pal Rachael Everett. Completing the team are work colleagues Tracey Howard, Ena Faal, Marie Morphett, Nicola Harrison and Nicola’s 10-year-old daughter Megan. Until becoming too ill, Tina worked on Ward 6 at Dewsbury District Hospital – including caring for cancer patients. Tina previously thought she had beaten the disease when given the all-clear four years ago. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and had a mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. The keen runner and swimmer later began suffering pain in her pelvis, which was put down to a sporting injury. But when treatment including physiotherapy did not work a doctor ordered scans. It was then that Tina discovered she has bone cancer which has spread to her liver,
leg, breastbone and spine. Tina was told it was terminal, and secondary to the breast cancer she thought she had beaten. She broke the dreadful news to her family after a visit to Eightlands Surgery in Dewsbury. Daughter Lucy had her own announcement and Tina told The Press: “She said ‘Oh mum, you can’t leave me now, I’m pregnant’. “There were tears and what should’ve been the best day of her life turned out not so good.” But it proved to be a catalyst as Tina vowed she would see the birth of her first grandchild in July. Tina said: “Having gone five months, and with the way I feel now, I hope I can reach that hurdle and then take it from there. “It could be easy when you’re told you’ve got a terminal illness to see everything as black.
Oh mum, you can’t leave me now...I’m pregnant Healthcare assistant Tina Drury, 57, of St John Street, was told on December 1 last year she could have only months to live. On the same day, daughter Lucy, 28, found out she is pregnant with Tina’s first grandchild. Mum-of-two Tina will take part in the 5km Race for Life at Thornes Park in Wakefield to raise funds for Cancer Research. A team of nine friends, called Tina’s Tribe and including daughters Kelly, 30, and Lucy, will start the event with her. Tina is not well enough to run, so she will walk most of the course but hopes to jog a little too. She said: “I might have to be carried over the line, but I’m determined that I’ll reach the
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