"It was such a shock initially when we saw the scan and thought things were really bad. 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. ![]() To learn more about Yoga 4 Philly, check them out on Instagram and Facebook at help support them in their growth, visit their Go Fund Me.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. (See the full calendar HERE.)īrice, who will soon expand the Yoga 4 Philly program to work with the Valley Forge Military Academy and College, keeps a close reminder with him: “Every breath that you take is a reminder that you are loved, supported, and a gift to the world. ![]() The classes themselves are instructed by Maria Lopez, RYT200 (registered yoga teacher with over 200 hours training), on Saturdays at 10am from June 14th through September 7th. “Yoga, meditation, and wellness should be accessible to everyone,” Brice says, observing that these are fields typically associated with upper economic classes. Yoga in the Park meets that goal by being free, but welcomes donations at any level. After incorporating yoga and a plant-based diet into his life, his feeling of wellbeing kickstarted a passion to share the importance of self-care and self-awareness with others, and at an affordable rate. He heard an interview discussing yoga and the vegan lifestyle and something clicked. “I was in a dark place in my life-the beginning of my dark knight of the soul, and I needed to incorporate something in life to help me manage my current reality,” he says. Yoga 4 Philly CEO Steven Brice wants to make yoga and wellness accessible to people of all incomesīrice’s journey into yoga is a bit of a personal redemption story.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |