A former headteacher was in “complete shock” after being given a devastating diagnosis just weeks after handing in her retirement forms.
Ann Coffey, ex-headteacher of St Michael and All Angels Primary School, Kirkby, had a “weird feeling that something wasn’t right” with her body. The mum, from Crosby, took herself to the doctors who referred her to the Aintree Breast Clinic. There, she was diagnosed with lobular breast cancer just a fortnight after she began her plans to retire.
Ann, who is in her 60s, had never met anyone before who had cancer and so it “never entered her mind” that she might have the disease. She believed cancer was something that happened to others, so when she got the news she didn’t know what to think.
