A terminally ill mother of two has insisted on women to insist the correct diagnosis after her cancer was only spotted after it had been ” moths eaten ‘bones.
Kayleigh Walker, 37, from Cardiff, suffered less well-known symptoms from breast cancer-inclusive exhaling of back and neck pain-voordat doctors have carried out the right studies.
Because the former teacher was pregnant at the time, a total of 19 doctors who investigated her assumed that her problems were the result of wearing the extra weight of a baby.
Although she described ‘immense pain’ that eventually needed her wheelchair to make ends meet, doctors told her that she ‘overestimates’ her pain.
Now, a year after her daughter Rosie was born, Mrs. Walker is still plagued by the incurable disease and destroyed with fear that waits for further decline.
She now wants the consciousness of the symptoms of red flags that you never ignore before she dies, increase consciousness and make her daughters, aged five, ‘proud’.
“I just felt unheard of. I felt that I was just hidden behind my pregnancy, “she said about the painful wait for an accurate diagnosis.
‘As soon as people heard the word pregnant, it was like:’ Oh, there is nothing that we can really do because you are pregnant. ” ‘
Kayleigh is now arguing for other pregnant women who feel that their voice is not being heard
Breast cancer is the most common cancer of the UK with nearly 56,000 cases that are diagnosed per year
Kayleigh’s daughter was born 10 weeks early, while she fought with her diagnosis
“But pregnant women are not superheroes, they get sick like everyone else,” she said The mirror. “It doesn’t mean you are unassailable.”
The test started early last year, just before Mrs. Walker became pregnant with her second daughter, when she started to suffer ‘a little neck pain’.
During her pregnancy the pain got worse, spread to her back and her arms.
She said: ‘My back started to get really bad. I designated it for medical professionals and they picked it up a bit, because there were many changes in progress with my body. ‘
‘I couldn’t lift Bend or get things off the floor, or pick up my daughter who was three at that time.
“I felt that I just survived every day. Even minutes felt like hours, “she added.
This progressed to unbearable back pain, muscle spasms and broken bones, leaving the terminally sick mother in a wheelchair.
Yet Walker, who was unable to take painkillers strong enough to alleviate the pain as a result of pregnancy, refused an MRI – doctors told her that they were only for ‘life or death situations’.
Kayleigh walked this week in a fashion show with her oldest daughter to raise money to support the charity Breast Cancer now
At this point ‘the tumors tore through her body.
‘I had a bump on the bottom of my neck, something in my arm, a lump that protrudes. All these things really felt strange to me, “she added.
Then, after 30 weeks pregnant, Mrs. Walker found a lump in her right breast, a telling sign of cancer.
She was sent for an ultrasound and an MRI that revealed breast cancer. She also had a broken arm and the vertebrae in her back had collapsed as a result of the disease that spread to her bones.
“My bones were eaten moth,” she explained. “I had the bones of an 80 -year -old and broke my arm by lifting a kettle to make a cup of tea.”
“My heart just dropped because I thought she knows what’s going on. It was just that silence where you know they can see something, “she said.
Mrs. Walker was then brought in for an emergency C section last August, because of the fear that she would be paralyzed if she were to wear until the term.
Symptoms of breast cancer to pay attention are nodules and swellings, hole of the skin, changes in color, discharge and a rash or crust around the nipple
Kayleigh had to use a wheelchair to prevent them from breaking even more bones
Her ‘miracle’ daughter, Rosie, was born early for 10 weeks, on 3LB 1 Oz.
But only two days later the new mother was admitted for an operation on her back, placing six bars and 12 screws in her spine.
She said: ‘As soon as I had that operation, I felt that I was fixed.
“I wasn’t, because I clearly had this terrible disease that killed me, but I knew that pain had disappeared.
The mother of two now wants to do everything she can to make her daughters proud, so that her legacy will live on when she is gone.
She said: ‘I hope that if something will do this, pay attention to the needs of a pregnant woman and pregnant women to have a voice to argue for themselves
‘I do [my daughters] To know that I was a resilient mother, that I will never even give up in the light of adversity.
‘You have to pick yourself up. Life is difficult and I want them to be proud, “she added.
Kayleigh now wants to make her daughters Millie, 5, and Rosie, 1, pride and teach them to be resilient against challenges with which they can be confronted
Survival percentages are also at a record high thanks to medical progress and regulations that are designed to see the disease early when it is easier to treat
Mrs. Walker participated this week in a fashion show to raise money Breast cancer nowAn investigation and support for a charity that is on a mission to ensure that by 2050 everyone is being breast cancer.
She said: I have a great quality of life right now. I know one day that will change. It is Russian roulette who has this disease.
‘But I was in a wheelchair and this proves that you can do good things if you just stay positive and remain hopeful. If I can go to school every day with my little girl, that’s a victory, “she added.
Kayleigh is one of the estimated 61,000 women in the UK who live with secondary breast cancer, according to breast cancer now – a figure that year after year has risen.
About 1,000 people die from the disease every month in the UK – which is equivalent to someone who died every 45 minutes.
Survival rates for the cancer depend on what stage it is diagnosed, but in general three of the four women live ten years after their diagnosis, where the chances of survival have doubled in the last 50 years alone.
Most metastatic cancers – the term for a cancer that starts in a part of the body before they spread to other areas – such as MS Walker’s are incurable.
The symptoms depend on which part of the body the cancer has spread. In the case of Mrs. Walker, the cancer influenced its bones, but it also often spreads to the liver, lungs and brains.
Other symptoms include that you are tired or have no energy, loss of appetite, inexplicable weight loss, feeling unwell without a clear cause, feeling or being sick, or difficulty sleeping.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer that is diagnosed in the UK every year, good for 11,500 deaths.
Although everyone can develop breast cancer, it is not always clear what it causes. People older than 50 years, who have dense breast tissue, have breast diseases or have family members who have had breast or ovarian cancer, run a higher risk of the disease.
People with higher levels of estrogen, progesterone or testosterone – which can be caused by starting your period at a young age – are also more likely to develop the disease.
To help catch cancer early, the NHS recommends going for breast screening to reduce the risk that the disease will become fatal.
Apply lifestyle changes, such as reducing alcohol, losing weight if you are too heavy or obese, and quitting smoking will all lower your chance of breast cancer.
Women are encouraged to regularly check their breasts for potential cancer singing.
These include a lump or swelling in the chest, chest or armpit, a change in the skin of the breast, such as silage or redness and a change in size or form of one or both breasts.
Teiple discharge with blood, a change in the shape or appearance of the nipple and continuous pain in the chest or armpit are also signs of the deadly disease.
Although this is not always a reason for concern, everyone who experiences these symptoms is advised to consult their doctor.
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