FOR years, Taylor Deanne Roy dismissed her shortness of breath and itchy skin as signs she was simply “getting older”.
So when scans revealed that the 32-year-old actually had stage four cancer, her “whole world stopped”.
“I had extreme tiredness, shortness of breath, itchy skin, and random pains for years, but I thought it was nothing to worry about,” Taylor, who is from Alberta, Canada, explained.
Initially, Taylor would blame herself for all the pain she was in.
She had put her itchy skin down to follicular eczema, which she had been diagnosed with three years earlier.
“I had become extremely tired and out of shape but I thought it was just part of being older,” she added.
But …