Linda Chavez, 35, shares her story of being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer after experiencing unusual symptoms for years.
A young terminal cancer sufferer who has just three months left to live has warned others not to ignore five ailments that turned out to be telltale signs of her disease. Linda Chavez, 35, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer last year after doctors consistently mistook her symptoms for other, less serious conditions like allergies and sciatica. Tragically, by the time the disease was spotted, it had reached stage four, which means that it had already spread beyond the lungs.
This included her brain, bones including those in spine, as well as tissues like her lymph nodes and adrenal gland. Medics have told her the cancer is terminal and is likely to lead to her death within the next six months. Now, she's taken to Instagram and TikTok to raise awareness of seemingly innocuous symptoms that could be cancer. Perhaps the most unusual sign was a persistent pain in her toes that felt as though she'd constantly 'stubbed' it. Little did she know that this was a sign the cancer had spread from her lungs to the tiny bones in her feet. Linda Chavez, who is based in the US, is pictured here with her husband Kyle Gregory and her two children Dean and Ryder. She was diagnosed with lung cancer at just 34. Ms Chavez experienced the most common sign of lung cancer - a persistent cough. But she also suffered numerous less typical symptoms. Other red flags included 'exhaustion beyond belief' and nausea. 'I was definitely exhausted beyond belief,' she said in a recent social media clip. 'I very, very nauseous before getting diagnosed...it was due to the brain cancer, apparently a lot of (the cancer) is on my right frontal lobe which controls hunger, cravings nausea and all that.' But before all these signs came a common symptom of lung cancer that is often mistaken for a winter virus. 'I had a cough for years,' she said before lightly coughing to show how mild the tickle was initiall
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