Lucy's career had taken her to war zones throughout the world but it was during a trip to the dental hygienist three years ago that she learned of an unexpected danger - a lesion, a white patch on her tongue, was found in her mouth. "They explained they wanted to excise the tumour, reconstruct [my tongue] from tissue from my arm, reconstruct my arm from tissue from my abdomen, then patch up my abdomen with tissue from my thigh, it would be a feeding tube, a breathing tube and two tubes in my neck to drain the lymphatic fluid. "I did myself no favours because I was so eager to continue with the pregnancy I sought all the second opinions I could and that delayed the termination all the while this cancer was growing and spreading," she said.
Published at: 2025-12-24 23:12:28
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