A businesswoman who was given 12 weeks to live by Bristol doctors after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019 is hoping to set up a charity to help people recognise the symptoms of the deadly disease.
Bryony Thomas, an entrepreneur who runs her own business growth company, said she didn’t pray or instinctively feel she would beat the odds when she was told the news just days before Christmas three years ago - she accepted she would die. On hearing the devastating diagnosis, her first thought turned to her daughter, who was only eight at the time, and her husband. She had lost her own mother when she was just five.
“I was pretty accepting of the fact I was dying," she said. "I am not religious, I didn’t pray and I didn’t think I would be the exception or positivity would beat it; I accepted I would die,” she said.
