A DUDLEY mum who is nearing the end of her cancer treatment has recorded an emotional song, revealing how she pulled her through her darkest times.

Grace Nkounkou-Issombe was told she had osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in July last year - just two months after the birth of her son, Austin.

Immediately after the 24-year-old was told a lump on her right femur was cancerous, she began treatment at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

But it wasn't as effective as doctors had hoped, so in December, she made the difficult decision to have her leg amputated.

Four months on, the most intensive part of her treatment is now over, and with the help of physiotherapists and a prosthetic leg, Grace hopes to learn to walk again this year.

Throughout her ordeal, CLIC Sargent has been helping Grace and her family, both financially and emotionally.

The cancer support charity also runs a music programme, which offers young people with the disease the chance to get involved in a range of activities to help them develop their song writing and composition skills.

Grace, who was involved with the programme, was given the chance to professionally record In Your Honour, a song she co-wrote with her sister, Melica Nkounkou.

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She said: “The song we’ve written means a lot to me. It’s about how even when I’ve been in a dark place over the last year, I’ve never felt alone.

“One of my favourite lines in the song is ‘I am fearless when you walk with me,’ because without my faith in God I think I might have been too scared, and given up.

“And even though it might sound strange to some people, cancer hasn’t just been a negative experience. There have been a lot of positive things that have come out of all this. I’ve met so many special people on my journey who have helped me so much, and I have a different perspective on life now."

Grace, who performs by the name Keziah G, is originally from Belgium and the majority of the song, performed with pianist Natalie Holmes (pictured with Grace below), is written in her native French.

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She added: "Going to a professional studio session made me feel like a celebrity – like Beyonce! I’m not a diva but I felt like one that day.

“If it wasn’t for CLIC Sargent I don’t know how we would have coped. Now I’m getting better I’m looking forward to doing more work with the music programme this summer."

To find out more about CLIC Sargent’s music programme, visit  www.clicsargent.org.uk.