16:38 Rachael Brown 23, Terene Stevens 41, Simon Purcell
16:38 Rachael Brown 23, Terene Stevens 41, Simon Purcell
16:38 Rachael Brown 23, Terene Stevens 41, Simon Purcell
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Nicki & Stuart<br />
<strong>Brown</strong>, 34<br />
Cheshire,<br />
East London<br />
Stuart had been experiencing a persistent stomach ache after returning<br />
from holiday, but dismissed it as a stomach bug. The pain became<br />
unbearable over the next few months and a visit to doctors resulted in tests<br />
for a stomach infection. Stuart consulted another doctor who referred him<br />
for an endoscopy. Stuart says: “I remember when I came round I asked the<br />
doctor what they'd found and he said he wanted to wait for the results first,<br />
which I thought at the time was suspicious. I had 'the call' a few weeks later<br />
asking me to come in for a chat. When I arrived the doctor and a nurse<br />
took me to a private room: clearly not a good sign. He talked me through<br />
what they'd found but I struggled to take any of it in.” Stuart was diagnosed<br />
with non-Hodgkin lymphoma two weeks before his wedding to Claire.<br />
Beating Blood<br />
Cancers<br />
Matina Zoulia,<br />
33<br />
Kent<br />
Ray Johnson,<br />
75 Faversham,<br />
Kent<br />
Matina was working as head of sales at a publishing company, working<br />
long hours that left her tired but she really loved her job so didn't mind. She<br />
got pregnant with her first child and gave birth to a lovely little boy in the<br />
November of 2010. She found herself exhausted but put it down to having<br />
a new born a baby. “In July 2011 I noticed a lump on my breast. I didn't<br />
think too much about it, but my husband kept urging me to go to my GP to<br />
check it out. I don’t like to go to the GP for small worries as I didn’t think it<br />
was anything serious, but reluctantly I went. The GP was reassuring but did<br />
book me for an urgent appointment at the Breast clinic at University<br />
College Hospital in London. After the obligatory checks, the consultant<br />
informed me that the lumps were cancerous, and he suspected it was<br />
either breast cancer or lymphoma.<br />
Ray is described as ‘Faversham’s fittest pensioner’. He is running for us in<br />
memory of mum who died of bowel cancer in 1977. He will be 6 months<br />
older than she was when she died when he runs the Marathon.<br />
Beating Blood<br />
Cancers<br />
Beating Bowel<br />
Cancer<br />
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