The mum of a teenager who had stomach bug symptoms has described the pain of finding out he actually has cancer. Linsey Cowell said 13-year-old Bryce had been an active and well child right up until he started to become unwell in mid-April.
The 41-year-old said Bryce experienced a bout of sickness, which mimicked the symptoms associated with norovirus, in the weeks before he was diagnosed with a rare soft tissue cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. She now wants to raise awareness of the disease which baffled medics, while also thanking the "amazing" doctors and nurses who have helped her son.
Speaking of the day her son first became unwell, she said: "It started off on April 15 when he felt a little bit sick one day, we thought it was norovirus. He was sick over the Saturday evening into Sunday morning and then that went. Following that he was complaining of pain at the top of his leg on his left side. Because he was generally achy and his temperature was high, I gave him painkillers as you're supposed to. Those were the only symptoms he had." You can get more story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
