Amy Carr was bed-ridden in the hospital in London for more than a week.
She had lost her ability to speak and was temporarily paralyzed on the right side of her body after a pair of surgeons extracted a cancerous golf-ball sized tumor out of her head. A former star goalkeeper for the Northern Illinois women’s soccer team, the aftermath of the July 2015 surgery – along with the extensive chemotherapy that followed – robbed her of her strength.
Just more than a year later, she’s training for her first half-marathon.
“I’m feeling good now – best I’ve ever felt,” she said now at her home in Hemel Hempstead, England.