A mum who was told her pains were due to Crohn's disease has died surrounded by her loved ones after she lost her battle with bowel cancer.
Emma Egerton was diagnosed with ulcerated colitis when she was aged 11, which then progressed to Crohn's disease. Ever since then, the mum-of-one had been living with the "crippling illness".
Emma began to seek help for certain symptoms such as chronic fatigue and abdominal pain, but she was told it was due to Crohn's and so "plodded on". But earlier this year, she was given the devastating diagnosis that she had stage four bowel cancer.
