Eleanor McCleave, from a small town in western Australia, says Scotland 'is like something from a storybook'
A brave young nurse with terminal cancer has seen her lifelong dream of visiting Scotland come true as she completes her bucket list before she dies.
Eleanor told the Record: "Iain and his family were the first that my parents met when they moved to Esperance and he is from Skye, so I grew up listening to fairy stories about Skye from him. I'm also good friends with his son Lachlan, who is a couple of years older than me and it just sounded like such a magical place.
Before she was diagnosed, Eleanor was working in an operating theatre as a nurse in Perth - but in November 2020 she was rushed to hospital after having a seizure, and it was there that medics discovered she had brain cancer. "The heart is a really s*** place to have cancer as it's pretty much untouchable. I had some surgery to remove some of the tumour, but it's already starting to grow back again."
"I've always had a bucket list and I had a trip to Europe planned which was cancelled when Covid hit."
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