

Further tests and an MRI confirmed it had spread to the lymph nodes in the area, and Sharon had another surgery in February 2022. "She gave me a row," Sharon explained, before getting straight on the phone with her mother's doctors. "I didn't say anything to anyone because it was in the middle of December, Christmas was coming, and I didn't want to spoil anybody's Christmas." Sharon waited until her daughter Ffion's birthday had passed on the 28th before saying anything.

Unfortunately, just before Christmas in 2021, Sharon found another lump at the top of her leg, near her groin area.
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"I've got a massive scar on my arm now that's never going to heal.," Sharon added, "They just put a skin graft over the top, so you could practically see right inside." On August 25, she had an eight-hour operation to remove the sarcoma and rebuild the area with nerves and vessels from her forearm. The following day it was confirmed Sharon had a rare cancer, Myxofibrosarcoma, in her left foot, and her treatment began. Sharon's foot on the day of biopsy in June 2021 (Image: Sharon Walker) On June 1, 2021, Sharon had a scan and biopsy taken, where -after consulting Google - Sharon asked "is it likely to be a sarcoma?" The radiographer, having worked on a multidisciplinary team in Morriston Hospital that dealt with sarcomas, said he thought it was highly likely. "She saw my foot and the first thing she said was you need a scan on that straight away," Sharon explained. Thankfully, working in the Diabetes Centre, there was a podiatrist on-site when Sharon next returned to work between her doctor's visits. Read next: 'Strong, confident, and passionate' disability sports campaigner dies aged 27 Upon her visit to the GP Sharon was advised that it was lymphedema - a build-up of fluid in soft body tissues when the lymph system is damaged or blocked - and was told to rest it above her heart and return in two weeks if it didn't improve.

The 53-year-old mother explained, "I noticed my shoe was feeling a bit tighter than normal, and I'd had this lump on my foot for a while anyway, probably a couple of months that I'd really noticed it, so I went to the doctors the following week." Sharon Walker, from Nant-y-Moel, Bridgend, was working from home as a medical secretary in the Princess of Wales Hospital, when she had to pop into the office in May 2021. Perched on her pink high chair, Simone is known for taking selfies with anyone who asks, and sharing festival secrets and other good gossip - hence the megaphone.A Welsh mother is scheduled to have a below-the-knee amputation just over a year after heading into work and noticing a lump and tightness in her shoe. Welcoming visitors to Rue Sainte-Catherine is Madame Simone. He says what happens outdoors is just as highly programmed as what happens inside the comedy clubs. "This year I told my team that I want people to laugh at every 15 feet," says Patrick Rozon, Vice President for all content - indoors and out - for Juste Pour Rire, the Francophone side of the festival. The outdoor side is also family friendly so the streets - closed off to cars, not clowns - are crawling with kids. That helps, since Just For Laughs/Juste Pour Rire is a bilingual festival for both French and English speaking performers and fans.
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Professional musicians, magicians, acrobats, jugglers, puppeteers - the outdoor performers' punch lines don't need words. Not as well known to people who've never been here is that laughs of all kinds can be found outdoors, for free, throughout Montreal's cultural district, the Quartiere des Spectacles. Montreal's annual Just For Laughs festival is best-known as a showcase for current and future stars of stand-up comedy.
