keeperscottage
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My daughter has just been reading my account of the past year of her life and battle with osteosarcoma (an adolescent bone cancer) and she wantd to point out a few things....
1. When I referred to heer as being "straight and took no prisoners", what I meant was that she didn't mess around talking behinds someone's back, she was STRAIGHTFORWARD and would confront them with whatever the issue was! She reckoned she was the most outspoken student in her Sixth Form! (Which leads us to another problem......all her friends have now taken their A Levels and left school - Em's got to take the entire final year again as she was only in school for about five days!)
2. She had 12 inches of bone removed from her leg which included her knee. She has a huge scar (which doesn't worry her at all) and a disabled badge for her car!
As I'm typing this, she's whinging in the background saying "You didn't say how bad the operation was!".
Thankfully, this should be the end of this horrible episode for us, unlike Sam, another girl who was diagnosed at the same time as Em. She suffered from one infection after another after surgery and following Emily's brilliant all clear news on Monday, Emily went to the Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at University College Hospital where she received her chemo to say hello to the nursing staff. Sam was still being treated and Emily went to visit her.......only to find that she had had her leg amupated at the thigh since the infection had taken such a hold........all this a week before her 18th birthday. So sad.
1. When I referred to heer as being "straight and took no prisoners", what I meant was that she didn't mess around talking behinds someone's back, she was STRAIGHTFORWARD and would confront them with whatever the issue was! She reckoned she was the most outspoken student in her Sixth Form! (Which leads us to another problem......all her friends have now taken their A Levels and left school - Em's got to take the entire final year again as she was only in school for about five days!)
2. She had 12 inches of bone removed from her leg which included her knee. She has a huge scar (which doesn't worry her at all) and a disabled badge for her car!
As I'm typing this, she's whinging in the background saying "You didn't say how bad the operation was!".
Thankfully, this should be the end of this horrible episode for us, unlike Sam, another girl who was diagnosed at the same time as Em. She suffered from one infection after another after surgery and following Emily's brilliant all clear news on Monday, Emily went to the Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at University College Hospital where she received her chemo to say hello to the nursing staff. Sam was still being treated and Emily went to visit her.......only to find that she had had her leg amupated at the thigh since the infection had taken such a hold........all this a week before her 18th birthday. So sad.
