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❚❙ As a fund-raising bid to get treatment for a new mum heads towards £80,000, she tells of her hopes and fears
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I feel at peace
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mum was given
Tuesday
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in life.
Kate Geraghty tells me she
news nobody ever wants
to hear.
has, though. Kate Geraghty was told
C °F Mostly sunny11°C/ and warm 52° F
today. Highs from 21 to 33°
1°C/ 23C. LightF and She dreamed of being a teach- Friday
a cancerous tumour at

with myself.
69
variable wind. Mostly clear tonight. Lows from 8 to 11C. Light er when she was a little girl.
Sunny. the base of her skull
and variable wind. She had a desire to travel and could almost certainly
64 Wednesday live in different19° C/ 67°F not be 7°
countries. C/ 46
removed °F
with
62 Partly cloudy. Then she hoped to meet surgery.
57 someone right for her, settle Saturday And even if the 34-year-
67 13°C/Derby
Stoke-on-Trent 55°F Nottingham 6°C/42°F down close to home and have a old had the operation,
baby. Chance of rain. her quality of life, and the
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61 Thursday
Burton-on-Trent
By the end of last 20°
little Ivy came along as a per-
year, 68°F time
C/after she
10°could
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with her four-month-old
spend°F

I feel happy
River Trent River Leen
59 Overcast. fect gift, just before Christmas, daughter, Ivy, would be
74 Birmingham Leicester Kate had done all of that. Sunday
ruined.
Bucknall 0.16 0.39 Bulwell 0.41 1.10

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10°C/ 50° F 7°C/ 45° F But now, in a cruel and crush-
Thunderstorm. Treatment to extend
Clifton Bridge 1.32 2.90 Lenton 0.20 1.00
Colwick 1.71 3.60 River Soar
68 Coventry Cambridge ing blow, Kate has been given a Kate's life, and making LOVING FAMILY: Paul and Kate with Ivy shortly after the birth, and Paul with his daughter
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Friday time limit to relish 18° C/
her 65
new °F sure she 8° C/
feels 48 °F
as well as
Shardlow
Willington
1.08
1.55
1.70
2.35
Freemen Weir 0.22 0.47
Northampton family. can throughout it, is now Littlethorpe 0.87 2.13 AFTER Paul met Kate for a wanted to do. Our baby is so The notion of being a single
65 Partly cloudy. Kate has terminal cancer. The Monday her only option. River Derwent drink a few years ago, it did happy and so content, and dad in the future is something
67 14°C/57° F 4°C/40°F tumour is located at the base of Kate and her fiancé, Church White 0.89 1.60 River Rea not take long for him to real- it’s because of our families, Paul does not want to think

with the way

her skull, and Partly cloudy. Paul Dhillon, 35, are both
it has spread. Derby City 0.76 2.00 Calthorpe Park 0.15 0.42 ise he wanted to spend his but it’s mainly because of about right now, because of

River
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& Moon Last Thursday, surgeons
her they did not think they
13° C/ 57 told°F teachers 8°who C/
live in Leicester.
work
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The pair knew of each other
Kate, because she instinct-
ively knows what to do to be
how perfect a mum Kate has
proved to be.
River Levels
Solihull 0.28 0.42 Perry Park 0.53 0.87
C °F Sunrise 6:01 a.m. could remove it. A fund-raising page has from when they were young- the best mum. “Being a single dad - it’s not
Current
Sunset (m) 8:13 p.m. Flood Current (m) Flood “I’d known it was serious. I been set up with a target er, through mutual friends at “I just feel despair, because what I want and nobody
73 Current (m)going Flood Current £100,000,
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River knew my life was to be of generating school and college. that needs to carry on. We wants that. And the main
87 Trent Moonrise 8:22 a.m. River Leen
River Trent
limited. But I thought, ‘I’m still River
to LeenKate receive
help After both living abroad and think it can carry on longer.” thing at the moment is putting
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I’ve lived my
73 thought I might get another her more time with her few years, they decided to go has been full of hurdles. Doc- on the things that we can do.”
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51 82 River Soar five years and we’d
Shardlow 1.08still get the1.70 fFreemen
amily. Weir 0.22 0.47 to a bar in Leicester for a tors tried to induce Kate into Paul could be a broken
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Shardlow Derby Nottingham
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Willington things. 2.35 After the Leicester
Littlethorpe 0.87 2.13 catch-up. It was meant to be labour, then performed an man. He could be angry. But
Willington
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(°C/°F) 2.35
21/71 22/73 23/75 23/74 “When
River he
Derwent said it’s going to be Mercury
River Nene first reported on for an hour, but that turned in- emergency caesarean section he’s not reacting in any of
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few months, 0.89way short-
it was 1.60 Kate's situation four days 1.89 to three. on Monday, December 18, those ways.
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51 83 When we first start 0.22 talking, Here,LockKate talks1.43 to re- with me,” Paul says to Kate, “There were always a lot of positive, always. That helps
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Calthorpe the heartbreaking
Park 0.15 0.42 She squeezes his hand, go over a lot of different tone for us all.”
Yesterday's Low (°C/°F) 13/56 Saturday
12/55 12/54 12/55 River
withTamethe odd babble, her clearly River Granta
situation in which she
Stapleford 0.24 1.02
which is already tightly en- things," says Paul. “But we The other love of his life,
75 Yesterday's Precip 0.00" Perry Park
smitten mum looking down at
0.53 0.87
has found herself - at a twined with hers. kept doing all the stuff for the baby Ivy, perks him up as
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her adoringly. time when she has never They were both teachers, baby. Kate kept doing that well.
20° C/ 68°F 10° C/ 51°F DETERMINED
been happier with her both well-travelled, and both while she was waiting for “She smiles every day and
River Trent life. River Leen lived in the city. Their lives each appointment.” we all smile back at her.”
K at e ’s fiancé, Paul, and some and goals aligned perfectly.

How to donate
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fill the 1.32living
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Paul still looks as smitten
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64 56 55 on the little one. with
1.70the way that I’ve lived my then. And he wants her by his
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It is obvious
Willington that every
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75 75 75 73 ment with Ivy is
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cherished. p e o pl e. Littlethorpe 0.87 2.13 have her. A FUND-RAISING campaign has been launched to fund
56 55 Monday54 57 Recalling when she first found “The final
River thing
Rea I wanted to do “I was really, really scared private treatment to prolong Kate’s life.
Partly cloudy. out theChurch
lumpWhite in her neck 0.89was was1.60meet the right person to about looking forward,” says It has a goal of £100,000 and has so far raised £78,194.
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River Levels Yesterday
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“I just thought it was that. I The pair had discussed hav- “Kate doesn’t deserve to combats illnesses, to recognise and attack cancer cells.
Leicestershire
Current (m) Flood Current (m) Flood
was going to have a tough year, ing a child and, at the end of
but it was something I was go- 2016, said they would see what
feel like this all the time. And
Ivy needs to be with her as
However, she is being put forward to clinical trials, and is
open to any option that gives her more time and a better
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0.47 baby first, then get married FIRST CHRISTMAS: Kate Geraghty and fiancé Paul Dhillon
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River Nene
Now, Kate is determined to en- and, all things considered, she with baby Ivy, who was born a week before Christmas Day
23/74 River Derwent
Church Wilne 0.89 1.60 Kislingbury 0.25 joy the time she has left with feels like that choice has paid
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toke- Cambridge Baits Bite 0.26 0.29 Goole 0.16 not waste any time,” she says, first operation to try to remove
na “I think it’s easy to think: “It’s got our story, of how me
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River Cole
0.22 AND
0.40 COMPLAINTS
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River Rea
1.43 adding she and Paul are de- her tumour, at the end of Febru- ‘Why me?’, and feel unfairly and Paul met, and pictures of
3.78

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termined not to let cancer get ary. He knew the answer would treated, but that’s how every- things we did before she was
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Perry Park 0.53 0.87 Stapleford 0.24 1.02“I want to get the treatment I Their plans for this year to them. pregnancy.
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