Mom Lizzie Spear revealed how a harmless symptom became a warning signal of rare cancer. She said she had one day noticed a large cams under her eyes that forced her to see a doctor. ., ‘ Due to the disease, experts were forced to treat it with a new form of therapy.
Suffers from many serious illnesses
56-year-old Lizzie She suffered from health problems long before she was diagnosed with cancer. As a 17-year-old, she diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a rare blood disorder in which blood is difficult to clot. Four years later, she even removed her spleen, for which she had to get used to the life of a person with weakened immunity. In November 2020 was also mum found fibromyalgia, chronic disease that causes extensive pain and sensitivity in the body.
However, in February of the following year, however Lizzia’s daughter Lowri started to worry about her health even more. She noticed that Her mother has extremely swollen eyes to seek help. “I told her it was nothing, but she insisted on her. Now I owe her daughter a lot,” Lizzie explained.
Doctors initially They felt that the British suffered from an allergic reaction to the morphine patches she used to treat fibromyalgia. For sure, however, they performed blood tests to see if they accidentally find something more serious. Two weeks later, Lizzie called the hospital doctors that an anomaly had occurred in its results. “On the same day me They said I needed an urgent bone marrow biopsy. I went straight to the hospital and there they revealed that I had cancer, “she added.
3. Marca 2021 Bola Lizzie diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which was a huge shock to her and her loved ones. The disease forced her to think about other unusual symptoms she felt, finding out that She suffered from night sweats, was constantly tired and was easy to make bruises. Although it has attributed menopause, experts, according to experts, these are clear symptoms of leukemia.
He has been fighting the disease for many years
Lizzie She spent eight weeks in a hospital where she graduated two rounds of chemotherapy. After intense treatment, her doctors reported that To achieve complete remission will need a stem cell transplant it has received from her daughter. Thanks to her, she managed to stop the spread of the disease for some time. In November 2023, however, her cancer returned. “On vacation I noticed swollen eyes again but I thought it was for sipping cocktails and little sleep“she said.
Doctors told her this time that Her only chance of survival is a new treatment called Car-T, which had to be approved by the British Fund for cancer treatment. “Outpatient chemotherapy began again between November and February 2024, which was a 100-kilometer journey back and forth. And then I started to feel very bad,” Lizzie revealed, saying that She lost sight to one eye, fell regularly and suffered from peripheral neuropathy of the lower limbs and feet that made her impossible to move.
Doctors had to give it a new form of treatment. (illustration photo)
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Following Chemotherapy Fund for Cancer Treatment approved her experimental treatment, which gradually began to recover. Although it still has peripheral neuropathy, he no longer needs a wheelchair to move. Lizzie Doctors in August 2024 even said he was again in remission.
