”I’M RUNNING LONDON TO PROVE I’M REALLY BETTER”
A leukaemia diagnosis wasn’t going to stop Christa Ronan from achieving a dream she ne ver thought possible: running the London Marathon
WORDS: LISA JACKSON
The last thing I expected to discover after I’d injured my ankle while snowboarding was that I had leukaemia”, says Christa Ronan, 37, a London-based physiotherapist. “I was told I needed surgery to fix my ankle but my operation was cancelled because blood-test results showed I had pancytopenia (a reduction in all types of blood cells).
“I went back to work in floods of tears. But I was only concerned for a short time as the first haematologist I saw a few days later assured me it wasn’t anything serious. The pancytopenia explained the bruising, illnesses.nose bleeds and extreme tiredness I’d been experiencing for the six months prior to that: I’ve always exercised, so when I had to stop due to my ankle injury I attributed the fatigue to being unfit and inactive. At one point I burnt my hand really badly on a hot-water bottle, even though it had a fleece cover! I’d obviously been so tired that the pain of my hand burning hadn’t woken me.
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