Rachel Morton was just 19-years-old when she was diagnosed with a rare tongue cancer.
A teenager was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after being diagnosed with a rare tongue cancer.
In 2019 Rachel started to suffer from painful mouth ulcers, then she became increasingly tired and started falling asleep in the daytime.Rachel, who was in her second year of university, was rushed into surgery for a 16-hour operation. After the operation Rachel was left unable to speak or walk, and found out that as the cancer was aggressive, she would also need go through a gruelling schedule of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
She said:"Getting through all I went through without Fiona and Nicola would have been near impossible. “Nicola is young and interesting and funny and because I couldn’t leave my room would sit and talk to me for hours, and it never felt like she was being paid to be there.She added: “Teenage Cancer Trust funded staff like Fiona and Nicola have more time to spend with younger patients and that makes such a difference. That gave me consistency and familiarity and a chance to talk about how I was feeling at a very scary time.
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