Leona Macken

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309 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · “I want to make the women of Ireland safer” - Leona Mackin · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

And I said, I think the cancer is back.

And they were like, well, your scans were fine.

And I said, I just need to see a consultant, please.

So the consultant came in and I said, can you feel this lump?

Like it was kind of just below my belly button.

And the minute she felt it, she said, we need an urgent CT scan for Leona.

And I knew, I knew then it was back, like, you know.

So then I got the CT scan and that confirmed that then in 2025.

Yeah.

When I went in and they told me it was stage four is when I kind of fully broke down.

I was devastated.

I just felt like I'd done everything right up to that point.

I was very angry at that point.

And, you know, it was definitely the lowest point.

We didn't know whether I was going to get...

treatment or not I didn't know how long I had I knew like so in September I felt a lump and by October I could visibly see a lump so I just thought god this is so aggressive you know and I just went home my parents were up at the time and Alan's family were all there and we just we all cried it honestly felt like my funeral it felt like we were all mourning my death there and then you know and and a reminder to listeners you had two tiny girls yeah

Yeah, two very young kids, yeah.

I did, yeah.

All I wanted to know, really, I just said, like, how much time do I have?

And they just said, possibly years, but short years.

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