Hayley Douglas

Hi . I’m Hayley I’m 41 long shot and I feel absolutely terrible doing this BUT ! . But at the age of 35 in August 2019 I was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer I had surgery chemo radiotherapy and I had a good 2 years recovering and started been the mummy my little girl deserved she was 9 mths old when I was diagnosed.. Until the dreaded day came again the cancer was back and in my ribs n neck , Back to it surgery’s n radiotherapy followed by 2 years of immunotherapy which I did so well on but I lost use of my right arm so needed to live been a left handed when all my life I was right handed but that’s nothing compared to what I had to have done , I had stable scans for 2 years which was great . ….. March 2025 I lost my first born baby boy at the age of 25 yrs of age for the passed 10 months I haven’t felt great, but who would after losing your son and also best friend? I’ve been getting signs like I did have a few signs from how things started when it returned a 2nd time . But I wasn’t sure if it was just stress related. Fast forward few weeks started getting terrible pains in my stomach and all signs pointed towards colitis which I’ve seen this before in my son after numerous x-rays CT & MRI scans and a lot more tests about being passed from pill to post in Wakefield and Huddersfield they found a new area of cancer in my spine I had started losing balance slowly over the last few weeks to now I am paralysed from the waste down. I am having palliative radiotherapy in hope it slows the cancer down in my spine. However, I’ve not one area this time but three they treating T1 T2 and T12 so basically the top of my neck and in the bottom so it couldn’t be just one place it’s in three and it’s so hard.. I hate having to do this but people do and I need help so much we trying to source trials which I’m under uchl in London I’m everywhere because I’m complex but it doesn’t come free and I’ve stilll a home n kids n bills to carry on regardless of me having terminal cancer . So I’m traveling in between London / leeds / and maybe Manchester t Thank you for reading I’m just trying just don’t want my children going without because my body is letting me down Much love Hayley