Rebecca Gibbs, 35-years-old, who played Nina, a paramedic, a couple of years ago in the popular soap Casualty has been given the devastating news that she has breast cancer.
In an exclusive interview in the Mirror Newspaper and said “By the time you read this, I will be lying on an operating table as surgeons try to cut out a lump from my breast. It’s a fairly small lump really, about the size of a walnut, but it is doing a great job of trying to screw up my life at the moment. It was only last week I got the final diagnosis - grade three breast cancer. First a male doctor asked me gravely: ‘ What do you know about cancer? I think you’ve got it.’ Two days later a cancer specialist nurse told me gently that his hunch had been right. She didn’t use the word aggressive, but I know that it is. I don’t need to look up statistics on the Internet to know I may not make it.”
Rebecca added “It seems incredible now that only 11 weeks ago I was in hospital giving birth to my first baby, Gigi. Then it was a moment of total joy. This time as I pack my bags to go in it’s with a different set of emotions. I can’t bear the thought that I might not be around as Gigi grows up. She’s only 11 weeks old - she needs me for God’s sake.
We wish Rebecca all the very best of luck in her battle against this horrible disease and hope that she has a lifetime to share with her beautiful new baby girl.
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