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A cancer-stricken mother fixed six months to unrecorded has heartbreakingly told of her fears that her girl 'will hide me'.
Sophie Louise Wright, 34, from Torquay, Devon, was astatine 1 constituent told her tell-tale sickness denotation could beryllium down to acerb reflux aliases a tummy ulcer.
Her world was turned upside down erstwhile doctors recovered she really had terminal bowel cancer.
Speaking of her agonising diagnosis, Ms Wright, whose woman is three, said: 'When my girl is mentioned aliases I deliberation astir nan clip I person near pinch her, I cannot incorporate my emotions.
'My biggest fearfulness is not being astir to watch her turn up.
Sophie Louise Wright, 34, from Torquay, Devon, was astatine 1 constituent told her tell-tale sickness denotation could beryllium down to acerb reflux aliases a tummy ulcer
'She’s astir 4 and I don’t deliberation she’ll retrieve overmuch of her life astatine this stage, truthful I’m worried she’ll hide me.
'I don’t want anybody to switch me. I conscionable want to beryllium her mum forever.'
She added: 'I’d happily unrecorded pinch crab destroying my life everlastingly if it meant I sewage to beryllium pinch her.
'No 1 my property should beryllium fighting crab and worrying astir erstwhile our clip will beryllium up.'
Ms Wright, who useful arsenic a aesculapian secretary, had antecedently undergone room to region polyps – mini growths connected nan lining of nan ample intestine.
Doctors were alerted aft she began bleeding from her bottom, a tell-tale symptom.
The mum has been fixed conscionable six months to unrecorded and fears her girl won't retrieve her
Ms Wright, pictured pinch her fiancé Lewis, 35, had antecedently undergone room to region polyps – insubstantial maturation – from her bowel and thought her 'debilitating' symptoms were arsenic a consequence of this
She underwent polyp removal successful May 2023.
After Ms Wright struggled pinch symptom nether her ribs and vomiting, she assumed it was nan accustomed aft affects of getting polyps removed, which she claims she was told tin return 12 weeks to retrieve from.
As good arsenic nausea, she besides battled bloating.
A biopsy taken astatine nan clip of her removal came backmost antagonistic that summer, but Ms Wright had a gut emotion thing was wrong.
She said: 'I thought possibly nan polyps had dispersed crossed my assemblage but I didn't deliberation it was cancer.
'I gradually became sicker, much tired, losing weight and uncovering life hard.
'I had to cancel each plans pinch friends and family arsenic I couldn't eat nutrient and I was near housebound.
'It made my narration pinch my girl and fiancé harder, too, arsenic I gave up.
'My life was wholly ruined and I questioned whether location was thing mentally incorrect pinch me, arsenic each my results came backmost clear.'
The mum has been diagnosed pinch metastatic little GI adenocarcinoma crab successful her bowel which has dispersed to her liver and spine
She is presently receiving chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy, which she claims worsened her symptoms, including ulcers and numbness successful her feet
Ms Wright claims she was fixed anti-sickness tablets and told it was apt owed to acerb reflux aliases a tummy ulcer, until she underwent a bid of humor tests, CT and MRI scans, arsenic good arsenic a liver biopsy.
She was then, successful October, diagnosed pinch bowel cancer, which has since dispersed to her liver and spine.
Without treatment, doctors estimate she only has six months left.
Ms Wright is presently receiving chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy.
Nothing other is disposable for her successful nan UK, she claims.
She has discovered different curen successful Germany which intends to shrink nan tumours done delivering chemotherapy straight into nan liver, alternatively than nan full body, until they vanish completely.
Ms Wright and her fiancé Lewis, 35, are fundraising for this curen raising £16,531 retired of nan £25,000 needed truthful far
But it comes astatine an eye-watering £3,300 costs per pop, pinch an estimated 10 sessions needed to execute these results.
Ms Wright and her fiancé Lewis, 35, are fundraising for this treatment.
Bowel Cancer, which is 1 of nan astir communal types of crab successful nan UK, tin besides beryllium known arsenic colorectal cancer.
Tumours tin beryllium recovered anyplace successful nan bowel aliases rectum.
Around 43,000 Britons are diagnosed pinch bowel crab each year, Cancer Research UK says.
Tell-tale symptoms see bleeding from your bottom, bloating, losing weight without trying, tummy symptom and changes successful poo, specified as having softer poo, diarrhoea aliases constipation that is not accustomed for you.
Advanced bowel cancer, besides called metastatic cancer, is simply a crab that has dispersed to different parts of nan body, specified arsenic nan liver, nan lungs aliases nan lymph nodes.
WHAT IS BOWEL CANCER?
Bowel crab is recovered anyplace successful nan ample bowel, which includes nan colon and rectum.
Around 43,000 Brits are diagnosed pinch bowel crab each year.
Symptoms include:
- Changes successful your poo, specified arsenic having softer poo, diarrhoea aliases constipation that is not accustomed for you
- Needing to poo much aliases little often than accustomed for you
- Blood successful your poo, which whitethorn look reddish aliases black
- Bleeding from your bottom
- Often emotion for illustration you request to poo, moreover if you've conscionable been to nan toilet
- Tummy pain
- A lump successful your tummy
- Bloating
- Losing weight without trying
- Feeling very tired for nary reason
Source: NHS and Cancer Research UK
