The dog saved her life!
Angie Shaw was working at Beechwood Veterinary Group’s Garforth Surgery when she was headbutted in the chest by a pet Labrador when she tried to turn him over on the consult table, where, unbeknown to her at the time an aggressive tumour was lurking.
The veterinary nurse has since had six rounds of chemotherapy, spanning 18 weeks, and then 15 doses of radiotherapy which finished in December 2022. Angie is now celebrating being given the all-clear. “The lump was purely coincidental and nothing to do with the cancer but if the pet hadn’t headbutted me, the cancer wouldn’t have shown up for nine to ten months by which point it would have spread. It would have been too late. That pet saved my life.
She added: “My colleagues were really supportive. That helped massively. I said ‘I don’t want sympathy or special treatment. I am living with cancer, not dying from it. I will lose my hair so I will be wearing a wig. Tell me if it’s wonky or if the label is showing – but for Goodness’ sake, get any lumps checked’.
Angie, who is married with two grown-up children and three grandchildren, said: “I had to keep positive. Everyone thinks a cancer diagnosis is the death warrant. I thought ‘I have too much to do to let it get in the way of my life’.
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