A mum of two died of incurable stage four cancer just months after she was told her back pain was because of a 'trapped nerve'.
Helen Etheridge first complained of a pain in her back in October 2020 which was put down as nothing more than a trapped nerve. The 68-year-old who was born in Wirral but lived her last thirty years in Crosby, said the pain was because of "old age".
But during a trip to visit her sister in Hull in late January 2021 Helen became very ill with what doctors thought was a pulmonary embolism as she was coughing blood. Just days later she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.
