A BARMOUTH woman, who has twice faced cancer, has thanked surgeons for saving her life by rebuilding her neck.

Care worker Lynn Morrisey now speaks with an electronic larynx after­ losing her voice box due to cancer of the throat and oesophagus.

She has thanked the staff of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board for the treatment,which included a 15-hour operation at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan, to remove her larynx.

The 62-year-old said: “The care I received at Glan Clwyd’s Cancer Treatment Centre was excellent. They saved my life.

“This was the second time I had been diagnosed with cancer having been treated for thyroid cancer 29 years ago.

“The operation for the throat cancer, which was carried out by five surgeons, involved a laryngectomy, but it was far more complicated as I had to have my neck basically rebuilt.

“My stomach also had to be lifted up and I had muscle and skin taken from my thigh to help rebuild my neck.

“I was a patient at Glan Clwyd Hospital for more than a month and was later admitted to Wrexham Maelor Hospital for three weeks bec­ause of weight loss and the fact I couldn’t eat.”

Lynn has been helped back on the road to recovery by North Wales Laryngectomy Club, run by former engineer Peter Holloway, who has also suffered from a cancerous tum­our on his larynx, which surgeons removed.

Read the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News