Leona Macken

And then I finished that then kind of the end of 2023.

And then 2024, I was just in so much pain still.

And, you know, like I think as well being a hairdresser, like you kind of get up and you do your makeup and you do your hair.

And I was so used to being like, you know, you just get on without any hairdressing.

It's one of those kind of jobs that we, you know, you just put on a show nearly sometimes.

So I was just so used to doing that.

So every appointment I went into, I'd have my hair and makeup done.

But I'd be sitting there saying, I don't feel any better.

I'm still in an awful lot of pain.

I'm taking so many salpidol a day.

And they were kind of saying, oh, the hysterectomy would take a while to recover from.

And because I had done chemo and radio, now my ovaries were obliterated.

So I went straight into the menopause during that.

I think it was the second week of that.

So they were kind of like, you're in menopause now as well.

And my body was dealing with a lot.

So it kind of made sense to be like, yeah, it is dealing with all this.

So I should be in pain.

But it got to a point where I was like, I couldn't bring the kids to school because I'd walk over to school, which is like a stone's throw from my house.

And I'd come back and I'd be in pain.