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british soccer star's wife says ryan reynolds helped her with cancer diagnosis
vancouver-born reynolds paid for new york neurosurgeon's second opinion
dec 10 2023
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ryan reynolds, the pride of vancouver, has been credited with getting a crucial second opinion on a brain cancer diagnosis given to the wife of one the players on his british soccer team.
according to an article published in the daily mail , reynolds helped pay for wrexham player anthony forde’s wife to travel to new york, where she met with a neurosurgeon who determined her brain tumour was benign.
laura forde was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour earlier this year, shortly after giving birth to the couple’s first child. at the time, she was told that the tumour was terminal.
in fact, the new york biopsy determined it was a grade 1 thalamic pilocytic astrocytoma — a benign brain tumour much less fatal that the first verdict.
“the (first) neurologist told us it was inoperable and you have a timeline,” forde told the daily mail.
“we said then we didn’t want to know how long. paddy was four weeks old and i am being told basically that i may not see my son turn a year old.
“no word of a lie, i was planning my funeral as i was doing those night feeds. i was crying silently. it was a really low time. a living nightmare.
“it was a very low time. in the first few months after giving birth, a woman is severely all over the place hormonally, not to mind getting this landed on me. emotionally, it was just a roller-coaster.”
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the daily mail story came out the day reynolds and dallas cowboys quarterback dak prescott launched an advertising campaign for the colorectal cancer alliance — aimed at encouraging people to get screened for colorectal cancer.
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