A "washed out" mum thought blamed her symptoms on long covid until her daughter spotted her leaving the shower.
RAF veteran Ann Gilbert, 49, had been suffering "weird" symptoms since contracting Covid-19 last year, to such an extent her brother suggested she move home after nearly 30 years away from Liverpool. She told the ECHO: "I've always been somebody who's quite sparkly and quite bubbly, and I felt a little bit, washed out is the best way to describe it. But with having covid and also being menopausal, you're at that time of life - you just think, 'Come on, get a grip, you've got this'."
Three weeks after moving into a house in Walton, Ann's daughter spotted a lump on her right breast, just below her collar bone. Ann dismissed it as "just a little lump" not worth worrying about, but the 24-year-old insisted she "just please get it checked out". Ann hadn't even registered with a GP in Liverpool, but she found a "fantastic" surgery where a doctor examined the lump and referred her to Royal Liverpool Hospital.
