Mum to make skydive to raise cash

Jan 10 2010 Sunday Sun

THE MOTHER of a young cancer victim who died after fighting the illness four times has vowed to make a charity skydive in her memory.

Corrie-Anne Young, was just 22 when she lost her battle with cancer last year, just five weeks after she marked the happiest day of her life when she married boyfriend Matt Young.

Now her mum Kirsty is planning to jump out of a plane at a nerve-jangling 12,000ft, to raise cash for the teenage cancer unit at Newcastle’s RVI, which cared for her daughter for half her life.

Kirsty said: “It’s my new year’s resolution . . . it’s going to be terrifying, but living with Corrie was always exciting and terrifying. Life is a little bland without her, so I had to pick something that would be really scary.”

Corrie-Anne, of Curthwaite, near Wigton, Cumbria, was first diagnosed when she was just 11 and again at 13, but the disease’s persistence made her all the more determined to achieve her dreams.

Having beaten cancer twice, she celebrated by going travelling with a pal.

But while they were exploring Thailand she was subjected to an horrific rape ordeal on a Koh Samui beach.

A year later, cancer reappeared, in her breast and lung, and her devastated parents Ed and Kirsty feel sure that it was her horrendous ordeal in Thailand which prompted the return of the killer illness.

Despite the cancer’s reoccurrence, she was determined to see through her nursing degree course in Newcastle, where she lived in Heaton.

Kirsty said: “She was so poorly but she insisted on carrying on. She loved Newcastle and everything about it.”