A student said her 'life was completely ripped from her under her feet' after waking up at night with a 'really bad pain' in her arm and chest then being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.
Eloise May said she was left in 'disbelief' after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the Liverpool Echo reports. The 20-year-old said she initially thought the pain was caused by a horse-riding injury or by coming home drunk.
She said 'absolutely no idea' the doctors would find a lightbulb-sized tumour in the middle of her chest, compressing almost a third of the vein returning blood from her brain to her heart. Eloise said she couldn't believe it until she saw biopsy samples of the tumour, which looked like 'little white worms' in a pot.
