A CANCER diagnosis was the third blow in three months for a Newport widow.

Jennifer Nock, 54, of St Julians, had already coped with her daughter Lisa Jarvis, 28, who suffers from epilepsy and asthma, being put into a medically-induced coma while on holiday in Fuerteventura in June after suffering a fit.

In August she discovered her car window smashed and her late husband's treasured CD collection missing.

And when she returned from her own holiday she was told that a cancerous tumour had been found in her bladder.

She said: "The bad luck I have had over the last few months is unbelievable.

"In September I decided I had to get away from it all and went for a couple of weeks in Gloucestershire in the caravan.

"Before I left my doctor said I had to go for some tests at the hospital.

Almost as soon as I got back I was called in and told I'd need the tumour operated on and that it was cancer."

She had the operation two weeks ago but said: "I'm in limbo now waiting to see if it has spread to other areas." Doctors expect to know within the next months if other areas are affected.

Mrs Nock has four children and five grandchildren but has been too unwell to have them visit her house.

She is not going back to work until she is given the all-clear by doctors, and had to stop running dance nights at Raglan Barracks because of her health.