A nurse who discovered she had cancer was diagnosed after her husband joked she “looked like a minion”. Becki Buggs, 43, only learned she had pancreatic cancer when her husband made the comment after her skin had turned yellow when she got out of the shower.
Becki had surgery to remove a tumour in the same operation she prepares patients for in her role as an NHS theatre nurse. The mum-of-two said she was “completely devastated” when she was diagnosed as people normally to go to her for reassurance before their own operations.
Becki, from Colchester, Essex, said: “Everything was adding up to the fact that it was not going to be a good diagnosis. It didn’t make it any easier.
