'It feels like a film': Bride-to-be, 28, makes heartbreaking five-week decision

A bride has swiftly arranged her dream wedding in just five weeks after being told she had only a short time to live. Ellie Downes, 28, received the devastating news four years after sustaining a swollen knee while arresting a suspect as a new police officer revealed a rare form of bone cancer.

The ex-officer from York underwent chemotherapy, amputation, and eventually became paralysed before doctors declared she had just "a few short months to live". "I didn't know anyone could have this much bad luck," Ellie said.

"When I talk about what has happened - it doesn't feel real and feels like a film."

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She reflected on how before her cancer diagnosis, her life was lining up perfectly: "Everything was perfect, as I had just bought a house with my partner, Max, I started my new job and we even started trying for a family. But after the diagnosis my whole world has been tipped upside down."

Ellie first became aware there was an issue when experiencing pain in her knee during an arrest while serving as an officer in 2020. She felt a pain in her knee as she was kneeling down on the ground.

Initially thinking the discomfort stemmed from her recent uptake of running, her GP advised seeing a physiotherapist, presuming it was a muscle strain, reports Yorkshire Live.

However, when a physio clarified it wasn't a typical running injury, Ellie underwent an MRI scan which exposed her osteosarcoma of the left proximal tibia—a condition affecting just 160 people annually in the UK. Ellie was just 25 at the time of her diagnosis.

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Ellie was immediately scheduled for