“The doctor asked if I had any questions and I asked two: ‘Am I going to die?’ And: ‘Am I going to lose my hair?’”
Taylor Kershaw was in his first year of secondary school when his mother, Michelle, noticed a lump in Taylor’s neck. She contacted the GP and they initially thought he was suffering from mumps. But when the lump didn’t go away, he had more tests, including a biopsy, which confirmed bad news: Taylor had Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer that affects the lymph nodes and lymphatic system.