A woman who yelled "yes" after stabbing a man to death is facing a life sentence.
23.05.2022 - 14:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum who thought she was suffering from a stitch while holidaying in Scotland has been told she could have just months left to live after receiving a shock diagnosis.
Ros Atkins, from Gateacre, Liverpool, was on a family getaway with her husband John, 42, and their daughter Maggie, six, when she started experiencing pain in the in the right side of her body, according to the Mirror.
The 43-year-old initially thought she might have pulled a muscle while sleeping in different hotel beds, but later made an appointment with her GP when the pain got worse after returning home.
Ros said: "I can only describe it as like a stitch in the right hand side. It started to be quite painful when I took a full intake of breath, that's the only way I can describe it really."
After going to see her GP, who believed she could have a blood clot in her lung, Ros was told to go to hospital immediately. The results of a chest scan showed a dark shadow on Ros's liver and she was sent for an MRI scan which found secondary cancerous cells on her liver."
Following a colonoscopy at St Helens Hospital, Merseyside, Ros was diagnosed with stage four terminal bowel cancer and told secondary cancer cells had also spread to her liver and lymph nodes.
It was at this time Ros was given the devastating news at Whiston Hospital that she had between 18 months and five years to live. She said: "The surgeons at that point didn't feel like it was safe enough to do surgery just because of where the tumour was. It took a long time for us to get our heads around.
"I think I actually managed to kind of come to terms with it sooner than my husband, he really struggled with it and found those next few days after that incredibly difficult.
"I didn't accept at the age of
A woman who yelled "yes" after stabbing a man to death is facing a life sentence.
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