Cancer took Yvonne Hook’s left eye and also helped make her dreams come true . Eleven years after being told the lump on her eyelid was cancer , the Auckland mum wants Kiwis to hear about a “positive cancer journey” and how living with what some saw as a disability had instead given her new purpose and determination to turn the hobby she loved into her dream job. “You might not believe this, but I think my life has been better because of it.
It’s taught me I can be really brave when I need to be. “I’ve come out of my shell so much, and I’m a much stronger person,” Hook said of life since doctors discovered cancer that began in her sinuses had caused a mandarin-sized tumour to become wedged between her eye and brain. The tumour had to go and - as Hook would discover after a 13-hour operation - so did her eye.
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