Personal Details

HI
Im sky im 25 and i live in newquay ,cornwall.

I was 14 and in foster care when i started waking up in the night dripping with sweat at first i though it was just the summer and a new house with radiators that was the cause.Then one day i went visit my mum and noticed i had a lump in my neck my sister joked it was a alien about to burst out and everyone had there own stupid diagnoses allergic to love bites etc! then my dramatic next door neighbour said it could be cancer my mum dismissed it saying she was a drama queen and i though no more of it.
A few weeks later the lump was still there so i booked into the doctors for a check i was put on antibiotics and told it was possibly glandular fever ..a few more weeks went by and i was tested for jaundice?! HIV and a few other thing as i'd lived with drug users the posibility was there although the tests came back negative.
It had been 12 weeks since i found the lump i was referred to the hospital and sent immediatly for a biopsy it was valentines day 1998 the next day i was told i had cancer (hodgkins lymohoma) this was a complete shock not one of the doctors had mentioned this as a possibility to me.
I sat in the room beng told treatment plans etc and asked to freeze my eggs?! then i was told i was going to lose my hair! i was 14yrs old i couldnt handle it and walked out i walked 4 miles home alone crying.
in the next few months i underwent my first few sessions.
Then i had enough my hair was falling out daily and that was that i went off the railes and refused treatment i took cocaine to numb the pain and block out reality i missed 2 chemo sessions and was old if i didnt make the next one i wouldnt see my 15th birthday ( about 8 weeks off)

One day after the drink wore off i was in soo much pain it hit me i might die! the first time i really took it in.. I couldnt face going back to the same hospital everyone was really old and i needed a positve outlook so being the stroppy teenager i was i asked to be moved to the bigger london hospital where there was other teenagers going through the same thing.

I was given a huge wake up call on how stupid i'd been when i saw a 3 year old little girl walking around the ward with terminal cancer.
I went on and completed my chemo and went in to remission a few days before christmas 1998.

Since then i turned my life around i have worked as a model up and downt he country and have a a successfull dancing career.
I also have 2 beautiful little girls and a amazing fiance im even planning for my wedding in 4 weeks something i never though i'd see.

Over the last few months i've been thinking about everyone who helped me get through my illness and i've decided to volunteer at my local hospital.

I also plan to enrol on a access course and train as a radiographer.