An ex-geography teacher whose stomach became so big that students began 'rumours' she was pregnant was stunned to discover she had a giant tumour - nicknamed 'Subway' as it was a foot-long. Danielle Wright said that she first noticed a change in her bowel movements, bloating after eating certain foods as well as lower back pain and extreme fatigue back in September 2020.
The 25-year-old environmentalist claims she spent well over a year going back and forth to the doctors who put her symptoms down to irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, food intolerances, her contraceptive pill and even stress. But the former geography teacher said that by March this year her bloating became permanent and she ballooned so massively that people thought she was expecting and kept asking 'when are you due?'
Danielle said it wasn't until a 'confused' doctor felt her stomach the following month and noticed her insides were out of place that propelled her into receiving a 'devastating' kidney cancer diagnosis. The aspiring waste and recycling officer had surgery last month to remove the 31 by 29cm tumour that weighed a whopping six kilograms along with her left kidney and adrenal gland.
