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Faith Pring & Jenny Moody & Sean McPolin

Woman, 25, diagnosed rare, incurable disease fears it will kill her 'at any moment'

A teaching assistant who was diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease after she went to the doctors complaining of arm pains fears it will kill her "at any moment".

Abbey Parker, from Willington, Derby, was diagnosed with Behcet's disease - a condition which inflames blood vessels and tissues - after she began getting pains in her arms, chest and kidneys.

The 25-year-old left doctors stumped medics when she visited the Royal Derby hospital in November last year, only to be diagnosed with heart weakness after multiple tests.

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