When Alex Jamieson was told she likely had 14 months left to live, she couldn't bring herself to accept the prognosis and still doesn't. It was initially thought that the 39-year-old had Crohn's disease, but they later discovered it was actually bowel cancer.
The cancer has returned twice in the past year and at one point, she was even told to go and enjoy her life because the trauma was all over - or so they thought. Upon the most recent set of results in September though, doctors said a cure was unrealistic.
Just as the late Dame Deborah James - who died of bowel cancer in June - famously advocated, Alex hasn't given up hope.
