She started feeling tired but thought it was normal
A mum of two will be able to enjoy Christmas with her family after spending the last one fearing for her life in an isolation room after a stem cell transplant. Last year 40 year old English teacher Emma Leeming thought it was normal that she felt tired at the end of the school term, until she began getting agonising chest pains.
Emma received one of the strongest available chemotherapies, which meant she was not allowed visitors. Her children were too upset to video call her because she looked different, and during one week she couldn’t eat because her mouth and throat were filled with ulcers. “I started getting these agonising chest pains. It got so bad my husband called 999. Within just a few days, the results of a blood test showed I had acute myeloid leukaemia. I just couldn’t believe it.
“I was only 40 and healthy and it left me feeling totally broken. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be for someone older or more vulnerable than me." “There was a week when I couldn’t eat at all because my mouth and throat were completely covered in ulcers. Looking back, I don’t know how I got through those days.
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