The heartbroken husband of an "inspirational" headteacher who tragically died after going to the doctors with a "stitch" says she was "like a light that never goes out". Ros Atkins, 43 who worked at Weston Primary School, Runcorn, sadly passed away on October 3, 2022, after being diagnosed with stage four terminal bowel cancer.
The principal, from Gateacre, had been on holiday with her husband John and their daughter Maggie, then six, in Scotland when she started experiencing a stitch-like pain in the right side of her body. The 43-year-old initially assumed she had pulled a muscle while sleeping in hotel beds but visited a doctor when she arrived home as her pain worsened, the ECHO reports.
After undergoing a number of scans and a colonoscopy at St Helens Hospital, Ros was given the devastating news that she had stage four terminal bowel cancer. She was also informed that the secondary cancer cells had spread to her liver and lymph nodes and she only had between 18 months and five years left to live.
