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14.02.2023 - 01:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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.
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“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. Nothing improved so we went private, Katie’s breathing got worse to the point where she couldn’t really breathe at all.”
A private doctor thought it was polyps, but the problem only continued to grow. “This tumour continued to grow until it was coming out of her nose - it was like a sausage was coming out of her nostril, right over her top lip,” continued Steven,
The couple decided to go to A&E as Katie continued to struggle to breathe. It was thanks to a couple of young nurses at the A&E in Southport that the couple were advised to head to hospital in Aintree for investigations into suspected cancer.
Katie had two operations in as many months at
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