A father of three was sent to the hospital to get an infected insect bite looked at but blood tests later revealed a shocking diagnosis. In October last year, Joe Beckwith got bitten by an insect and the wound wasn't healing after it became infected.
His sister Leanne told him to ring 111, as she was concerned he might have sepsis - a deadly infection that happens when a person's immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage the body. He took his sister's advice and dialled the number, then on October 19 he was told to go to the hospital, where he had some blood tests done and was then sent home.
But he was called back to the hospital just a few short hours later, where doctors told him that his white blood cell count was extremely high - he had leukaemia.
