Abbie Jarvis, 27, was diagnosed with grade three cancer after a tumour was found in her bladder
Abbie Jarvis has spoken of the moment her life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with late-stage bladder cancer - a condition usually associated with people who are 30 years older than her - aged just 27.
"I had to get my head around it, especially because I was on my own. The nurse was trying to speak to me and tell me about the whole process and it was going in one ear and out of the other ear. She would say certain words to me and it didn't make sense." "I went to my doctors around four times in October and then I went to A&E around three times in November - I went through all the emotions," she said. "I went and said I had a pain down below and then they either think it's water infection or something else that they will think of first.
Abbie, of Warrington, Cheshire, said: "Sometimes having a UTI can change the cells in your bladder but they aren't 100% sure that's what caused it. I don't come into contact with harmful chemicals, which is another reason people get it, so they've said it could be from the UTIs. It's just one of those things."
"If it was spreading, they would be taking my bladder out anyway so they said to just try it and that we can always stop after the first one or two."
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