New mum kicked in stomach while putting baby in car 'has just months to live'
dailyrecord.co.ukA new mum who was kicked in the stomach in an attack while putting her baby in a car has been told she could just have months to live.Sheena Hardman has been diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer but she had no idea there was a problem until she was assaulted outside her home in November last year.
The Liverpool Echo reports that the 41-year-old went to get checked out after the assault at Warrington Hospital and thought pains she was having were down to a C-section during the birth of her daughter, Rhea.
But the hospital visit revealed something more sinister and the mum-of-two discovered she had three tumours in her bowel, with one also spread to her lymph nodes.Sheena’s sister Shelley Harrison, 38, said: “She was kicked in the stomach and obviously because she’d had a C-section she just assumed the pains after the attack were related to that and went to A&E."They basically said where she was having pain from the attack, it wouldn’t really be an after affect of the C-section.
It wasn’t really in the right place and she wouldn’t have pains where she was experiencing them.”Sheena was referred to Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool before starting her chemotherapy at Halton Hospital.Shelley explained: “The treatment was seeing if they could tackle the smaller tumour and help to shrink the bigger one, and then they could understand what the next steps would be.
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