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| FORSTER. MUM DIED HOURS BEFORE MY MARATHON RACE FOR HER |
| My mum Joanna was there at the finishing line, cheering as I crossed the line, utterly exhausted.
I’d just run 10kms for the Cancer Research Race for Life, and every step that I’d taken was for mum.
She’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just six months before, and the chemotherapy wasn’t working.
Mum was the cornerstone of the family, and always so strong. She didn’t break down when she got her diagnosis, and there was one thing she wanted me to do for her. ‘Do something postivie about it,’ she urged me. ‘There’s no point sitting here moping.’ So I’d decided I would run for charity, and each penny I earned would go towards fighting cancer. |
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| CHAND COREY. IM STERILISED BUT IM HELPING OTHER WOMEN HAVE CHILDREN |
| The last thing I saw was the anaesthetists face swimming before me as I lapsed into unconsciousness.
I was having my eggs retrieved for IVF treatment. But I wasn’t doing it to have my own baby, instead I was doing it to try and help someone else have one.
I’ve donated my eggs now twice to help childless couples, and I’m set to do it again next month (Jan). I’ve even been sterilised myself as I don’t want anymore children for myself - I just want to help others.
People think I’m mad as I’m donating to people I don’t even know. I go through rounds of injections each time, risk the life threatening condition of hyperstimulation where too many eggs are produced as a result of the injections, go through the risk of general anaesthetics, and its all to help strangers. |
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| HOUGH. AMAZING SURVIVAL OF PREMATURE BABY WHO LAID HER HAND IN HER FATHER'S PALM |
| WHEN Tamsin and Michael Hough’s premature baby lay fighting for her life, they thought they had lost all hope for her.
But when tiny Caidence laid her hand in her father’s palm as she lay in her incubator, it was as she was telling them she would be alright.
Mrs Hough took a photograph of the poignant moment - which coincidentally happened on Mother’s Day - and it gave the couple fresh hope that their tiny daughter would survive.
After it was taken, tiny Caidence grew stronger each day and after three months in hospital she was finally allowed home. |
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| JORDAN. A BOOB JOB FOR XMAS |
| I looked at my breasts in the mirror and I hated what I saw. I used to be proud of my figure, of my DD chest.
But now my boobs looked like they had shrunk to nothing. I’d lost some weight recently and my breasts just looked like two empty sacs of skin.
i’d just separated from my husband Paul and the stress of our relationship breaking down had contributed to my weight loss.
It didn’t matter whilst I was still in the relationship, that my boobs had shrunk to nothing, but once we separated, I decided that it was time to do something about it. |
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| STREET. I PLANNED MY BABY'S FUNERAL - LOOK AT HER NOW |
| ‘SHE is meant to be here,’ I kept sobbing over and over again to the doctor. ‘Please don’t let her die.’
My little girl Freya lay motionless in her hospital bed, and doctors said they didn’t think she would survive.
She had been struck down by the killer brain meninigitis and her tiny body was trying to fight it off, but the doctors had said there was nothing more they could do.
my little girl had been so bubbly just the day before. Now I was sitting by her bedside planning her funeral. It was too much to bear, I couldn’t take it in.
Right from the time she had been in my womb Freya had been such a little fighter. I was being tested for a brain tumour at the time. For the previous 12 months my weight had been yo-yoing, my hair had been failling out in clumps and I’d had persistent headaches. |
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| GUDZ. SISTER GAVE ME MIRACLE BABY FOR XMAS - AFTER 15 FAILED IVF ATTEMPTS |
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WHEN Amanda Gudz had undergone 15 failed attempts at IVF she thought her dreams of motherhood were over.
She had been through the emotional heartbreak of 15 IVF attempts, and had suffered two lifethreatening ectopic pregnancies and a miscarriage.
Mrs Gudz had resigned herself to never being a mother after her ten year battle - but she hadn’t counted on the help of her sister Samantha Lewin who stepped in to help. |
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| BUFFALO. BUFFALO BEST MAN |
| WHEN a groom chooses his best man, it is usually a difficult choice.
But not for Ronald Bridges - he knew exactly who he wanted to fill the role.
His tame buffalo Wildthing stepped in to perform the all important role on the renewal of his wedding vows to wife Sherron - although at a staggering 90 stone, he towered over them both.
And Sherron had no objection - Wildthing has lived with them and their three children Lloyd, 35, Will, 16 and Taylor, 14, at their family home in Quinlan, Texas, since he was born in May 2005. |
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| SUTHERLAND. THREE XMAS MIRACLES FOR MUM WITH TWO WOMBS. |
| WHEN Kerry Ann Sutherland was born with two wombs, it seemed almost impossible that she would ever be able to have a family.
But she was determined to never give up in her quest to be a mother to the three children she had always dreamed of - even though it nearly cost her her own life.
Mrs Sutherland, 34, has amazed doctors after giving birth to her three miracle children after five attempts at IVF.
She even died TWICE on the operating table as surgeons battled to deliver one of her babies who was in the breech position. |
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| HUDSON. MUM BEATS BREAST CANCER THAT HAS HIT FIVE GENERATIONS OF HER FAMILY |
| WHEN Sara Crook discovered her tragic family legacy, she didn’t hesitate to act.
When doctors tested her and found she had an inherited breast cancer gene, she had good reason to worry.
Four generations of women in her family before her had already been struck down with the disease, and her sister Emma Hudson, 37, has just successfully fought the disease too as a fifth generation family member.
Mrs Crook made the brave decision in March this year to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to reduce her risk of developing the disease.
And next month she is due to have her breasts removed too - in a bid to see her own family grow up. |
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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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