A mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer after doctors spotted symptoms while she gave birth.
Lois Walker, 37, had suffered with stomach pain for over a year, but it wasn't until her son Ray was born by Caesarean section in 2021 when she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The mum-of-three first became unwell in June 2020 when she experienced strange bathroom habits and swelling around her diaphragm.
She had made 20 calls to her GP during lockdown and made numerous trips to A&E to report her symptoms, but doctors labelled her a "hypochondriac" - and she was given anxiety meds and told to stay away from dairy. She said: “I was going to the doctors, but I couldn’t tell them anything new because it was the same symptoms always, so they treated me with antacids.
