Military Families Support Blog

BREAST CANCER BOMBSHELL FOR MILITARY MOM

24-10-2007

On Friday Birmingham's Floozie in the Jacuzzi will turn pink in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Day. As chance would have it, one of The Stirrer's sisters had an op for the condition this week, and now Carol Jones daughter-in-law - who lost her husband, Brummie soldier John Jones in Iraq - has also been diagnosed.

My daughter-in-law phoned me today, I was getting really worried as I hadn't heard from her for two weeks. She told me she has breast cancer, I was gutted.

Only two years ago next months her husband (my son) was killed in Basra by a roadside bomb. She has a lovely little lad ( my grandson). She's had an operation, now they are checking her lymph nodes, then it's chemotherapy.

She's in her late thirties.

I thought of Lorraine Knight (see link here), Michael Young (see link here) and Kex Gorin (see link here) who are all awaiting news on whether or not they will get the drugs they need to help them.

My daughter in law could only think of her son being made an orphan at the age of 7. I tried to assure her that the drugs they use these days work miracles. But my worry is, will she get them if she's living in the wrong area?

I think she has had her fair share of misfortune, and would hate to think she would be turned down.

Good luck to all who are going through this terrible ordeal.

(Carol Jones lost her son John, from Castle Bromwich, to a roadside bomb in Basra in November 2005. She now helps run the Military Families Support Group (http://www.mfsg.org.uk/)

What are Stirrer readers' experiences of the Big C.

It's a condition we're all terrified of - so are there any stories of hope out there?