The mother of a boy who survived cancer is preparing to abseil 85ft down the side of a hospital.
Jackie Orton, of Twyford Road, Willington, will be taking part in the challenge on Sunday in aid of children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
The 55-year-old will abseil from the roof of Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre, where her son, John Harbord, now 15, was treated in 2001.
John, a pupil at John Port School, Etwall, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that forms in the soft tissues of the body.
Surgeons tried to remove the tumour but could not get rid of it all because it was close to nerves that affected his facial movement.
He then had nine months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
John got the all-clear in September, 2001.
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