Analysis: Cry First, Then Put On Brave Face for Your Bright Future ; This Weekend Thousands of Coffee Mornings Will Take Place Across Britain in Aid of Macmillan Nurses. One Young Cancer Sufferer, Siobhan Fitzgerald, Explains Why It's a Cause Everybody Should Support.

Birmingham Post › September 20, 2007

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My name is Siobhan Fitzgerald and I'm a typical 26 year-old girl. I love going out with my friends, clothes shopping, having one too many glasses of wine at the weekend, going to festivals, listening to music and generally just having a good time . . . oh yeah, and I have cancer.

Late last year I started to become very tired really quickly and blamed it on the fact I wasn't 21 any more.

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Analysis: Cry First, Then Put On Brave Face for Your Bright Future ; This Weekend Thousands of Coffee Mornings Will Take Place Across Britain in Aid of Macmillan Nurses. One Young Cancer Sufferer, Siobhan Fitzgerald, Explains Why It's a Cause Everybody Should Support.

At the same time my sister got a dog for her birthday, so when I started getting small blister-like spots on my legs he became the main culprit and I avoided him like the plague. When the spots refused to go and started to become insanely itchy I decided enough was enough and went to the doctors.

The doctor gave me all sorts of spot creams and an...

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