He, he took out the, the lump that I found in my neck and it was positive and I had my exams so I kind of went to all my exams whilst having some scans and stuff. I, I do remember coming in late for an exam because I, my scan had overrun and they let me kind of sit in the corner and carry on later than every, anyone else. So my school were really good with that. They were very understanding, they let me come and go as I pleased, they gave me privileges to sign in and out so if I was tired from radiotherapy or anything, they just kind of let me, I could do that, so that kind of responsibility was really, it was really thoughtful because I couldn't have necessarily stayed all day but. So yeah, I kind of did my exams.
Art was helpful, it was just, it was just something to take my mind off it but schoolwork was like that too with my exams. I, I kind of got through those couple of months because, you know, I thought I'd come so far even missing the best part of term, term in the summer between surgery and radiotherapy, I was still, you know, I was still working and it was so close literally two weeks before my exam, I was like, I'm not going to throw it all away for just this. I let my school know, who again were always really, really like thoughtful and kind and asked if there was anything I could do, they could do even. They offered me things like extra time in exams, which I chose not to take because I thought I wasn't really in a different position to anyone else you know. Then my exam boards were made aware of the situation so if I had to miss an exam which thankfully I didn't, they'd, they'd know and maybe take my, my predicted grade or take it into account that I missed the exam because I was somewhere else, but thankfully that didn't happen so.
I kind of, I did my exams and then they turned out really well. My school was really proud, they, they always publish in the newspaper about the exams and they, they wrote a little paragraph about me saying that because I got five A stars and four As at the end of it, so they, they wrote this little thing in the paper saying you know, even with battling cancer she managed to get good marks. So I was, I was chuffed when that came in the paper I was quite proud. I was like, you know 'cos I, I did feel that I worked hard, it did keep me going 'cos I thought, you know, at the time I thought GCSEs were the be all and end all you know [laughs]. |