A girl who had a leg amputated at 13 after her sore knee turned out to be cancer said she wants to share her motto – “I’m not what happened to me, I’m what I choose to become” – after skiing in Bulgaria, playing football for England and performing at Eurovision with Sam Ryder. Annabel Kiki, 14, started to notice “an ache” in her left knee – while attending school and playing sports – which left her struggling to walk between lessons and sit still without it “really hurting”.
She initially thought the ache was due to growing pains and hoped it would “go away”. But after a swimming lesson left her in agony and “floods of tears”, she had to be taken out of school.
Her mother, Sally Remmer, 43, took her to hospital for an X-ray. On February 7 2022, after further tests, Annabel was told she had osteosarcoma – a type of bone cancer.
