Scots gran facing lung cancer fight told by doctor mouldy house 'could kill her'
dailyrecord.co.ukA grandmother facing a gruelling fight with lung cancer has been told by doctors her mouldy home “could kill her” - leaving her effectively homeless.Christina Anderson was given the devastating news she has lung cancer in December last year.
Earlier this month, she went through a potentially life-saving operation to remove a part of her right lung.The 54-year-old– who also faces the prospect of a thyroid cancer diagnosis –has issued a desperate plea to be moved from her home in Glenburn as severe dampness has rendered it unsafe for her.
Christina is a kinship carer for her two young grandsons - but says she has been forced to be separated from them due to being too sick to live in her own home.She said: “It could kill me, it really could.
Because it’s not just the cancer, I‘ve also got chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and I’m asthmatic too. My surgeon, after I’d had the surgery, told me there’s no way I can go back there because the place is full of mould.“The boys keep asking about me because they think I’ve gone away and left them so it’s affecting them as well and with one of the boys being on the autism spectrum, he doesn’t understand why I’m not there.”The problems with damp and mould in the Glenburn property were not immediately apparent when Christina first moved in two years ago, but she sought advice from the council after noticing snails and slugs making their way into the property.
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