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Mother with ‘100 tumours’ reveals symptom that was sign of stage 4 cancer

A 30-year-old mother issued a death sentence after her heartburn turned out to be stage 4 bowel cancer like Bowelbabe Dame Deborah James is fundraising for £2k-a-month treatment that could buy her time to see her two children grow up “even just a little”.

When “fit and healthy” catering assistant Amie Walton suddenly felt a shooting pain in both shoulders in September 2020, she dismissed it as fatigue from playing with son Harry, eight, and daughter Mia, six.

But just 12 hours after arriving at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, where she lives with her fiancé, escalator engineer Chris Mills, 43, she was given the heart-breaking news that she had cancer which had spread to her liver and, despite braving eight rounds of chemotherapy, is now terminal.

Amie, who also has more than 100 tumours in her lungs, is now desperate to raise enough money to fund palliative chemo to prolong her life, adding: “I want to spend more time with my kids. I’ve learned to treasure everything, even just sitting in the living room with my family.”

She added: “Christmases, birthdays. I always have to question if it’s going to be my last one.

“I do everything to make sure my kids never see me cry. But when I do, it’s like they know because they’ll come and find me.

“Having palliative chemotherapy would mean the world to me. I used to be desperate for a cure, but now I just want to keep the cancer at bay and to give myself a few more years.

“As long as I can get more time with my children, even just a little more. It’s not fair on them. They shouldn’t have seen what they have seen.”

She added: “I don’t want to die. I want to be here for all their milestones.

“Whenever I hold my children, I feel so proud of them, I just want to cry.”

Palliative treatment is typically used to improve quality of life when no cure is available and Amie said having palliative chemo would prove to her little ones what she is always telling them that, “Mummy will never give up.”

She said: “Seeing me so unwell is tough. I’m only 30. I’m usually running around in the park with them and now I can’t even move out of bed.”

“I told them I’m ill, and I told them I go to hospital because of the nasty medicine, but it will help me.

“I’m just trying to be positive, as much as I can be.

“I say I’ll keep fighting, ‘Mummy will never give up.’”



I say I’ll keep fighting, ‘Mummy will never give up.’

Amie had never had any health issues before September 2020, when she began to suffer from heartburn, although she thought little of it at first.

But, after speaking to her GP,  who suspected she could have a blood clot, she  was rushed to hospital for tests.

Her momentary relief when she was told there was no clot quickly became a nightmare, when medics revealed she had a tumour the size of a pea on the right side of her colon, which had spread to her liver.

She said: “I didn’t expect anything, I wasn’t worried at all when I went into hospital. Nothing clicked. No one in my family has ever had cancer.”

Jess and Amie (Collect/PA Real Life)

Amie and Chris (Collect/PA Real Life)

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