Less than a year after being critically ill with Covid-19, mum-of-four Bobby-jo WIlloughby discovered a worrying lump on her neck while she was heavily pregnant.
Devastatingly, the lump turned out to be thyroid cancer. Bobby-jo, 30, is still under the care of specialists at the Freeman hospital in Newcastle, but in the meantime she's determined to channel her trauma into raising money for the charities which have helped her and highlight how vital it is to watch out for the signs of cancer..
The Dunston mum is running the Race for Life in Newcastle in July, and she's urging everyone to keep a close eye on changes to their bodies. As she was pregnant at the time, she only went under the knife to remove half of her thyroid after her baby - the now five-months-old Lily-Rae - was born. A biopsy confirmed it was cancer.
