A first time mum was left stunned after what she thought to be pregnancy symptoms turned out to be a tumour the size of a grapefruit between her lungs.
Kirsty Axworthy was around 12 weeks pregnant when she started to experience symptoms such as high blood pressure, night sweats, exhaustion and migraines.
However, when the symptoms failed to subside weeks after she gave birth to her daughter Elle alarm bells started to ring.