A Leicestershire mum was diagnosed with incurable cancer two years after being cervical cancer. Stacey Chetwyn's life was also turned on its head after her husband died three weeks after his own diagnosis.
Stacey, from Syston, was first diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2020 after a routine smear test. She was given chemotherapy and radiotherapy and her life returned to normal after treatment in April 2021.
However, the 40-year-old mum-of-two was readmitted to hospital with leg pain and mobility issues in September 2023. Two weeks later, her husband Stuart was admitted to another hospital with a suspected heart attack. The family were stunned to be told he had cancer in his oesophagus, liver and spleen, according to Cancer Research UK.
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Stuart, a normally healthy truck driver and part-time DJ, died just three weeks after his diagnosis at the age of 47. When he died, Stacey had also been given the news that her cancer had returned in her pelvis and was incurable.
Despite the hardships the past few years life has thrown her way, Stacey is trying to remain upbeat. She said: "My world fell apart when Stu died and I’m still coming to terms with everything that happened, but the children have kept me going. Day to day I just keep putting one foot in front of another."
Now alongside her two boys, Louie and Niall, Stacey will be taking on the first ever Rutland Race for Life Pretty Muddy event. She will be raising funds for groundbreaking new cancer treatments.
The run sees a mud splattered obstacle course for both adults and children on Saturday, June 21. It takes place at the Rutland Showground and is one of six Race for Life events happening across the East Midlands this summer, finishing in Victoria Park on Sunday, July 13.
Stacey said: "I’ll do anything to help raise awareness and keep up the fight for a cure. One of the things that helps is taking part in events like Race for Life and feeling like you’re part of a giant fight to kick cancer’s ass. If I can help prevent just one person having to go through what I’ve been through, then it’s worth getting a bit muddy.
"No one thinks it’s going to happen to them, but it does. In the blink of an eye things can change and that’s why I Race for Life - for Stuart, for myself and for everyone facing a cancer diagnosis now and in the future."
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