The motion was brought by the borough’s first citizen, Braid DUP Alderman Beth Adger MBE. Ald Adger told a meeting of the council in Ballymena that she was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 17. “This is a very relevant proposal.
That is happening a lot in the community today. I thought it only right that I give some encouragement to people who are suffering from cancer at the minute. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
“Fifty-nine years ago, when I was 17-years-old of age, I was engaged to my now husband Tommy and we had bought a new bungalow and were planning to get married. “My mother was in hospital having my youngest sister and I took unwell and was taken into the Smiley Hospital in Larne where the doctor discovered that I had cancer. “The doctor there was friendly with the doctor who was in London and he was bringing out this new medicine called chemotherapy.
I was sent over in an aeroplane to London’s Charing Cross Hospital for the treatment. “My father had to sign a form because I was a guinea pig for chemotherapy. My family was told if he didn’t sign for it, I would be dead in six months.
Advertisement Advertisement “The treatment worked and I was in hospital over there for six months in an isolated ward where anybody who came to visit me had to talk to me through a plastic door. “I came home and as you can see I am still h.
