Police have charged a second man after shots were fired in Rochdale.
17.03.2022 - 13:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum-of-three says it’s ‘never dull’ in her family — after one of her children took her prosthetic breast to school for ‘show and tell’. Helen Addis, 43, had her life turned upside down when she was diagnosed with triple positive grade 3 breast cancer — an aggressive form of the disease — just a week before her 40th birthday.
And, despite going through rounds of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and having multiple surgeries, Helen is able to see the lighter side after getting the all-clear. Her three children — Archie, 12, April, 10, and Belle, nine — have provided some priceless moments.
Helen said: “Before I had reconstruction surgery on my breast, I had a prosthetic, which I would wear when I was going out. I found it in my youngest child’s school bag one evening. When I asked her about it she told me that she’d taken it to school for show and tell!
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“Another funny time was when [husband] Mark and I had taken the kids to a theme park and some people were being allowed to jump the queue. Archie asked me why they were going first and I said I didn’t know but that maybe they were VIPs or special guests.
“He told me that I should tell them I have cancer, so that we could jump the queue too! It’s never a dull moment with the kids.”
Helen, a TV producer from Surrey, had also had more than her fair share of distress. Her nightmare began in January 2018, when she went to the doctor after suffering from night sweats.
“I thought that I might be going through early menopause, because I thought I was too young to be getting night sweats,” she explained. I was back and forth getting various blood tests done, I was also very very tired all the
Police have charged a second man after shots were fired in Rochdale.
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