The first week of pre-season training at Wolverhampton Wanderers was over and Carl Ikeme had just popped out to buy some paint for the house when his mobile started to ring. His world was about to be turned upside down. “It was the doctor at Wolves,” Ikeme says. “I remember him talking about Stiliyan Petrov and Geoff Thomas, and I knew what it was. I was devastated.”
On a still summer afternoon in Sutton Coldfield, in the relaxed family home where his two little girls are happily playing, Ikeme has been reflecting on that awful moment 13 months ago when he was diagnosed with acute leukaemia and the life-changing journey that followed.
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This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/06/carl-ikeme-interview-cancer-i-was-given-chance under the title “Carl Ikeme: ‘People are diagnosed with terminal cancer … I was grateful I was given a chance’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
