A woman from South Shields has thanked her hero dog for "saving her life" by alerting her to ovarian cancer. Tess Robison says her chihuahua Lola had been acting strangely for weeks and became "more clingy than usual" before jumping on her stomach and causing her quite a bit of pain.
Just days later a lump appeared in the same spot on the 41-year-old hairdresser which prompted Tess to visit her GP. Tess' doctor referred her to A&E where she was diagnosed with stage 3 low-grade serous carcinoma (LGSC) in January 2021.
And Tess says but for Lola's unusual behaviour, which included repeatedly smelling her breath, her rare form of cancer could have gone undetected for far longer. She said on Chronicle Live : "For about ten days in the run-up to Christmas in 2020, Lola just wouldn’t leave me alone and kept smelling my breath at every opportunity.
