A skin cancer survivor from the Bristol area is urging people to be careful in the sun after his health scare began when he woke up one morning with blood on his pillow. Luke Packer, from Westerleigh in South Gloucestershire, noticed in 2018 that a mole on the side of his face had changed shape and appearance.
The 23-year-old began feeling tired and achy, and then woke up one morning to find the mole had bled onto his pillow. He explained: “At the start of 2018, when I was looking after my great-grandmother as her full-time carer, I just didn’t feel right. I was tired, had aching muscles and wanted to sleep all the time.
“I had always had a mole beside my left temple, and overnight it became swollen, and one morning I woke up with a little bit of blood on my pillow. But I didn’t think anything of it, and it was July before I went to the doctor."
