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Champion News Service Ltd news@championnews.co.uk Tel: 07948286566 / 07914583378Craig Evison and Victoria Morrison, parents of Kyle Morrison

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Nicole Cutler in hospital. A woman found out she had been living with a tumor for 15 years after she lost hearing when her ears 'popped' on a plane.Nicole Cutler, 28, was flying from California to Boston, Massachusetts, when she experienced the loss and immediately booked an appointment with an audiologist who booked her in for an MRI scan.It revealed Nicole had a brain tumor and she underwent an operation but doctors were only able to remove 50 percent because it was wrapped around her facial nerve.After MRI scans every six months, in 2023 she found out the tumor had grown and underwent emergency radiation treatment to shrink the tumor. Photo released 28/08/2025

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READING, ENGLAND - AUGUST 28: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Comedian Milton Jones performs a set on the Alternative stage during Reading Festival 2021 at Richfield Avenue on August 28, 2021 in Reading, England. (Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

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WORDS BYLINE: Lucy Turquand-Young When Kristie Wood gave birth to her daughter in December 2019 she expected her body to slowly return to normal. But in the six months that followed, her stomach didn???t shrink, it swelled. ???After I gave birth, my belly went down a bit and then all of a sudden it started getting bigger again,??? Kristie, 34, said. At first, she dismissed it. In the middle of lockdown, she attributed the bloating to bad eating habits, hormones, and the demands of new motherhood. ???I just thought my belly was a bit rubbish after giving birth to a baby for the first time,??? Kristie, who was 29 at the time, says. ???In hindsight, now that I look back at it, it was quite clear something was wrong, but I was just putting it down to my daughter being born, my stomach not being the same.??? But when her abdomen became ???too big to ignore??? in mid-2020, she decided to go to the hospital. ???They had no idea at first what was going on with me,??? she says. ???I walked in and I went to the reception and I said, ???I'm here because I look like I'm eight months pregnant, but I'm not eight months pregnant.?????? Kristie, a scientist from Essex, was then admitted for a CT scan the next morning and doctors initially suspected a dermoid cyst, a typically benign ovarian tumour. Her scans were sent to Addenbrooke???s Hospital in Cambridge for review and she was reassured it was nothing to worry about. But that quickly changed when five days later, she was told she had ovarian cancer and the cyst had burst. ???It was quite a rapid escalation of like, oh, you've got a benign cyst. Don't worry about it,??? Kristie says. ???Then it???s we'll get you scheduled in for some surgery to remove it as soon as possible, to you might have cancer.??? ???And then all of a sudden, you've got cancer. It was just like, whoa, what is going on? It was crazy at the time.??? Just hours after she received the shock diagnosis, Kristie was taken in to have her damaged ovary and the cyst removed. ???I was the emergency case in the morning, it was absolutely crazy,??? she says. ???It was a heck of a lot to go through, and I think it made it worse because I had a six-month-old baby at home.??? While most new mums were learning to navigate nappies and night feeds, Kristie was navigating surgery, scans, and ultimately chemotherapy. Her baby, Louisa, was just six months old. ???I always had a strong bond with my daughter,??? she says. ???It's this mother-daughter bond, but I have to say I felt guilty about not being there, particularly through the phase where I went through chemo because I was completely useless as it was attacking me all the time.??? Recovering from surgery made day-to-day motherhood even more difficult, especially as she was unable to lift her baby. ???I felt like I wasn't able to give my daughter my best in that year when it was all happening,??? Kristie says. ???She was the apple of my eye at all times, but I wasn't as present as I'd like to have been.??? Because the cyst had ruptured, there were concerns that cancer cells could have spread into Kristie???s bloodstream, prompting an intensive treatment plan. ???The unfortunate thing is because it got to the point where the cyst burst, they had to administer chemotherapy. If I'd have got there maybe a week earlier, I could have just had the surgery and would have been done,??? she says. Beginning in August, Kristie underwent nine weeks of BEP chemotherapy, an intensive regime used for germ cell tumours and to reduce recurrence risk following surgery. ???There were three cycles, and each cycle was three weeks long,??? she says of the treatment. ???And it basically meant that for the first five days I had to stay in hospital having eight hours of chemo pumped into me every single day.??? ???And it was honestly the most brutal thing I've ever been through in my life.??? All of this happened during the height of the pandemic, adding layers of fear and isolation to an already overwhelming experience. ???Those five days having chemo, literally sitting there with that drip in your arm was just soul-destroying, especially at the time because COVID ??? we all didn't know what was going on with COVID, right???? she says. ???So I'm stuck in a hospital having my immune system destroyed in a global pandemic.??? ???It was quite challenging more mentally than anything.??? During Kirstie???s treatment, it was her mum who stepped in to help look after Louisa. ???She took Louisa and was with her the whole time,??? she said of her mum, who is a pet sitter. ???No one was going on holiday anymore, so she had all the free time in the world. So she helped.??? Kristie also speaks warmly of the hospital staff who supported her during those few months. ???They're absolutely incredible,??? she said. ???When I went and stayed in for the five days, the nurses on that ward were just amazing, I don't know how they do it.??? ???I literally don't know how they deal with what's on that ward and still can have a laugh and a joke and just be normal with you. They're amazing.??? Still, hospital restrictions during the pandemic meant she endured treatment largely in solitude. ???It was a really weird time as well to be going through something like that because I had no context of what's normal because the hospitals weren't normal at the time,??? she said. ???I didn't have any visitors throughout the entirety of my chemo.??? ???I didn't have that context or that support. So it was a really isolated sort of feeling to just be dropped off at the hospital and left to it.??? In October, Kristie received the happy news that there was no longer any evidence of the disease in her body and that she could return to her normal life. Now, nearly five years on, she is approaching a major milestone. ???So in September I will have my five-year check, and so far everything has been all clear, and they don't expect it to change,??? she says. ???As I say, the chemo was more of a precaution, but they said to me that no sane cancer doctor will say 100%, but in the case of me, they will give me 99.9.??? Although life has mostly moved on, the memories of that difficult time still linger. ???I feel like I'm almost back to normal now that time has passed. I'm not going to ever say I'm fully back to normal,??? she says. ???Obviously, it does cross my mind from time to time.??? ???It's gone from being something that I think about every day to something that I maybe think about once a week.??? During treatment, Kristie longed to speak to others who???d been through similar experiences. That???s when she discovered Mummy???s Star, a charity supporting families affected by cancer during or after pregnancy. ???They are unique being the only charity dealing with aspects of cancer during and shortly after pregnancy,??? Kristie said. ???I had a lady called Rebecca who worked for the charity phone me weekly during everything to check in on me and just listen, she had been through something similar to me and it was nice to talk to someone who understood.??? In addition to providing emotional support, the charity offered financial assistance to help cover costs such as travel and parking during her treatment, as she was on maternity leave. ???It was so valuable to have all these resources, and I really can???t thank mummy???s star enough for being there for me!??? Kristie says. Featuring: Kristie Wood and her daughter after her surgery When: 30 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images **All usages and enquiries, please contact info@cover-images.com - +44 (0)20 3397 3000**

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