Michelle Sterling, 63, was diagnosed with terminal leukaemia – a type of blood cancer – in November 2012
A woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer after losing her husband to a brain tumour and falling 40 feet off a cliff, and later became homeless while undergoing treatment, has celebrated more than a decade in remission and is aiming to travel and enjoy life until she is reunited with her loved ones – who are “waiting” for her in heaven.
“But for me, I’m not really bothered whether I die; my husband is there, my parents are there, my family is there waiting for me.” The former sustainability officer and geology graduate said she started treatment that same day and received daily intensive chemotherapy intravenously for the following month, which made her hair fall out within four days and feel as though she was “burning” and “urinating acid”.
“There are days where I think, ‘The NHS were amazing, I’m so lucky to have lived in this country’, because if I’d have lived anywhere else, I probably would be dead,” she said. “I didn’t choose to live on my own, I didn’t choose to have leukaemia, so I think the way I was brought up, you just have to get on with it.
After gaining her composure, she went to stand up but the “cliff gave way” – and amazingly, despite landing on her back after a 40ft-fall, she survived and did not break any bones. “I was relaxed and I didn’t tense up, I just thought, ‘Ed, I’ll see you soon!’, until I sensed the ground was going to whack me in the back,” she said.
It was during a consultation that day that she received the news she had terminal leukaemia. "It was a goldfish moment because it wasn’t expected,” she explained. “The woman decided she didn’t want to have cancer in the house, and that was a bit of a blow because I then had to find somewhere else for my dog and my belongings,” she said. “It was a nightmare, but I didn’t really take on board the enormity of doctors saying my cancer was terminal because I had so much going on, not just surviving leukaemia.”
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