Coronation Street star Kym Marsh, 44, became overwhelmed with emotion while presenting a Pride of Birmingham Award to nine-year-old Amelia Eldred, who lost a leg to bone cancer.
Kym has been a long-term ambassador of the annual regional event.Amelia was given the Child of Courage Award at the Pride of Birmingham Awards 2020’s virtual celebration, which is being broadcast on YouTube this evening.Amelia was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, which is a rare type of bone cancer, on her 7th birthday.
Chemotherapy did not work, so doctors had to amputate the schoolgirl’s leg to save her life.Surgeons at Birmingham Children’s Hospital performed a surgery called rotationplasty, which involves the foot and heel joints being reversed and reattached to the.