A single mum who thought she had a tummy bug was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer.
Donna Taylor, 45, had struggled with exhaustion and a loss of appetite while on her holidays in Turkey and Cornwall last summer.
The mum-of-two had experienced heartburn, reflux and bloating for 18 months prior - but put the symptoms down to her age and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
But after returning from her holidays with her children - Tia, 21, and Rio, 16 - she was stuck in bed for three days with a sickness bug.
Donna Taylor, 45, had struggled with exhaustion and a loss of appetite while on her holidays in Turkey and Cornwall last summer.
The mum-of-two had experienced heartburn, reflux and bloating for 18 months prior - but put the symptoms down to her age and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
But after returning from her holidays with her children - Tia, 21, and Rio, 16 - she was stuck in bed for three days with a sickness bug.
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00:00 Hello tiktokers, so I'm trying to have an afternoon nap, I'm absolutely knackered, I've
00:08 got a couple of hours spare, my body's exhausted and I just need sleep so I've got one ear
00:16 plug in as you can see, that's not working and I'm just laid thinking about cancer and
00:27 thinking about what chemotherapy is doing to my body and I just thought I'd share one
00:32 of the things that it's doing to my body is, you can't really see it that well but this
00:39 horrible, it's like lumps, spots and scabbies, scabs on my neck which has been all over my
00:51 chest and back and it's really bad today and because they are like lumps with like some
01:00 of them are itchy, some of them are like spots with stuffing then I can't help squeeze them
01:07 and I know I shouldn't but I can't have that on my neck because it literally drives me
01:14 insane so I've just had a bit of a scratchy like you can see squeezing session and it's
01:25 just rubbish because then I try to cover them up with makeup and that makes them worse and
01:32 then I've got intravenous chemotherapy on Wednesday and I think it's just going to get
01:39 worse and the steroid cream doesn't seem to be working and I know in the grand scheme
01:44 of things, you know, in the grand scheme of things is that really the biggest stress in
01:49 the world? No, but it makes me feel rubbish and conscious and like this drug is doing
01:58 something to my body that is not good but then it is good because it's reducing the
02:03 tumour and yeah it's just doing stuff to my body like because it's so toxic and I just
02:12 need to get over myself really, I really do and I'm just overthinking because I'm overtired
02:17 and I really just need to just stop it really. Anyway, please sleep, hurry up.
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