You cant take it with you
by Jane and Mike Tomlinson
Stephen has just finished this book. He read it quite quickly and with great interest. His comment was that he found it readable and interesting but quite harrowing to read how this woman and her family suffered at the end - probably rather unnecessarily.
Marathons, triathlons and cycling across Britain and Europe and the USA for charity Jane, a mother of three, copes with the news that she has 6 months to live by undertaking great feats of endurance. She was so successful that fellow sufferers could not believe she could find such strength and energy as a cancer-sufferer, and in some cases thou
ght she was a fraud - phoning and berating her in most un-British invective!
ght she was a fraud - phoning and berating her in most un-British invective! Jane, a paediatric radiographer, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 26 and after treatment, went into remission. A decade later it returned, and in 2000, she was told she had six months to live. As she sought to come to terms with this, she looked for ways to take her mind off things, and eighteen months later, she finished the London Marathon. That was just the start...
Born in Wakefield, one of nine siblings, Jane spent much of her childhood in Liverpool before the family moved to Adelaide in Australia for three years. When she was a teenager, they returned to Leeds in the UK.
Born in Wakefield, one of nine siblings, Jane spent much of her childhood in Liverpool before the family moved to Adelaide in Australia for three years. When she was a teenager, they returned to Leeds in the UK.
Jane died of cancer at the age of 43 on 3rd September 2007.
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