A student who gave pain to the leg by “learning to drive” was diagnosed with strange cancer, after a 10 cm tumor was discovered in his thigh.
The 20 -year -old woman had just started driving lessons in January 2022, at age 17, when she was receiving “shot” in her left knee and thigh.
Initially, Immy and his parents, Lucy and Jamie Stead, both 51, thought he was experiencing the “clutch leg”, pain of prolonged or repetitive use of the leg while operating the clutch, but decreased after a week.
However, in January 2023, the pain in the leg returned “stronger than ever” and went to his GP, who prescribed analgesics.
Despite looking for private physiotherapy, Immy’s leg pain persisted and a private magnetic resonance in January 2024 revealed that Immy had a tumor of the size of a grapefruit in her femur and diagnosed Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of primary bone cancer.
That same month, Imy began 14 rounds of biweekly chemotherapy and by September 2024 the tumor had “complete shrink”.
On September 26, 2024, Immy had a four -hour operation that includes a complete hip replacement and 20 cm or its femur replaced by a prosthesis.
Now in regular physiotherapy, Immy has no signs of cancer and since then has returned to the University of Bristol, where you read English literature.
Mom Lucy will direct the London Marathon on April 27, 2025 and has already raised more than $ 28000 for the charity, Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT).
Speaking now, Lucy, a primary school teacher, of Reading, Berkshire, said: “This has been the most difficult time in our lives.
“Nothing could have prepared for the news that Immy had cancer.
“Initially we left his pain in the clutch’s leg because he had started driving lessons.
“But when he returned next year, we knew we had to review it.
“Obtaining the news went beyond devastating, but grateful to IMmy received the treatment quickly.
“She is always a girl from the girl ‘without complications’ and this did not change when she was going through chemotherapy.
“His resistance and strength while navigating their treatment has been surprising my inspiration.
“That’s why I can’t wait to run the London marathon at the end of the month.
“I want to return to BCRT, any money that can be raised can go directly to your research and can do more to help families like us.”
Immy had started driving lessons shortly after turning 17, when three months and eight lessons later noticed an “acute and shot” pain in the left knee and thigh.
Putting it to the “clutch leg”, Pain Angelly decreased after a week resting just to return the following year in January 2023.
Immy’s leg pain continued despite the analgesics prescribed by their header and attending the NHS and private physiotherapy.
Then he sought the help of a private hip specialist in January 2024, where an exploration of magnetic resonance revealed that Immy had a 10 cm tumor that grew in his femur.
Two weeks later, Immy was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a strange aggressive shape of primary bone cancer.
Lucy said: “The news was devastating, but Jamie and I felt that we needed to put a good face for Funmy.
“She was strong but with a lot of pain.
“Our main concern at that time was how its treatment would look.”
The following week, Immy began a chemotherapy course in the hospitals of the University of Oxford, which lasted seven months.
“The treatment began to work almost immediately and thank that the tumor begins to shrink,” Lucy said.
“Chemotherapy was a turbulent moment for Imi, some days were better than others, but she never complained.
“I felt very proud of her.”
After finishing 14 rounds of chemotherapy on August 26, 2024, the next month of September 26, Immy underwent a four -hour operation in the same hospital where he received a complete hip replacement and his 20 cm femur or his femur was replaced by a prosthesis.
Then, the stockings considered the treatment and operation of IMmy successful, with the “completely missing” tumor.
Now without cancer signs, Immy has a checking every two months with an oncologist and has returned to the University of Bristol, where he studies English literature.
Speaking now, Lucy said: “We are very grateful to the NHS Child personnel. They saved Immy’s life.
“She is accumulating her strength and mobility, but she will get there.
“She refuses to let cancer define her and couldn’t be more proud.
“I am directing the London marathon for her and to highlight the incredible work of BCRT; they were there for our family when our world was the other way around.”
Kate Connor, Interim director of fundraising at The Bone Cancer Research Trust, said: “We are absolutely impressed by the incredible amount that Lucy has raised when facing the London marathon in Immy’s support.
“His hard work and dedication to training and fundraising are contributing so much hope to other families that face bone cancer, helping to finance vital research and support our work towards better treatments and a cure.”
