Laughter gets Lanarkshire mum Linda through her cancer journey

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As a medical secretary working at nearby Gartnavel Hospital, Lanarkshire woman Linda Murray watched the construction of the now world-renowned Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and quietly pitied the patients who’d go on to put their lives in its hands.“I used to think: ‘These poor people will have to attend the Beatson for chemo,” she said. “Little did I know that, one day, it was going to be me.”Linda’s cancer journey began over the festive period of 2022, when she was referred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow with pneumonia and a partially-collapsed lung.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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You are 100 per cent wrong.’ A nurse went to get me a cup of tea and I couldn’t drink it. My hand was shaking violently.“That was how I was told.

It was a bit of a shock. One of the first questions I asked was: ‘Will I lose my hair?’”A few weeks later, Linda returned to discuss with a surgeon the 4cm malignant lump in her right breast.Mammograms, a biopsy and blood tests ensued, before Linda, at the age of 55, began chemo in March last year.“I was the first person I knew to get chemo,” said the mum of two