Emily Locking was mum to a 10-week-old baby when she learned she had bowel cancerA NEW mum told how she battled cancer alongside BOTH her parents - after they were all diagnosed within months of one another.
Emily told Fabulous Digital: “Mum and I had very similar treatment regimes. We were both going through palliative chemo at the same time.COLLECTS/EMILY LOCKINGEmily was given the shock diagnosis when a stomach ache she developed after giving birth to Evelyn didn’t disappear. “My husband Matthew, 30, and I knew something was up but didn’t imagine the worst case scenario,” she said.
“It was really tough and rotten but I fought on as I didn’t want to be ‘the mum with cancer’. I didn’t actually tell people unless I got to know them really well.”