A former primary school teacher was told her bone pains and recurring chest infections were down to arthritis and asthma until she was told she had just two and a half years to live.
Chris Rennie found herself with crippling pains in her bones, to the point where she was using a wheelchair, and recurring chest infections until a blood test in May 2017 revealed she had myeloma, an incurable cancer that targets the bone marrow. She told the ECHO: "I went for my first investigative blood test in December 2015 and found out something wasn't right.
"At that point I didn't know I'd had a collapsed spine or broken bones. I was in a wheelchair because the pain from my bones was that bad but it was the chest infections that I was in hospital for the most.
