In the summer of 2021, hair stylist and mum-of-one Katie Froggatt thought she was just fighting off a cold. But as weeks passed, she started to find she couldn’t breathe at all.
To her and husband Steven’s horror, a growth had started forming within her nose. It worsened to the point it was ‘coming out of her nose, like a sausage out of her nostril’.
The couple discovered Katie had an aggressive tumour, leading to horrific surgery in a bid to help her survive. But despite surgeons removing Katie’s entire nose, she has been told she does not have long left with her young family, including little girl Myla, at the age of just 39. READ MORE: Brianna Ghey's family pay tribute as police remain at Culcheth Linear Park in murder probe - latest “It was in August of 2021, we had a bit of a cold in the house but after that, Katie started really struggling to breathe through her nose.
It stayed stuffy and it got worse and worse,” husband Steven told the Manchester Evening News. “She was misdiagnosed - the doctors thought it was sinusitis and she was prescribed medications for that.
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