A Canadian woman has been left fighting for her life after ignoring telling signs of stage 4 cancer.
Taylor Deanne Roy, 32, had noticed a series of symptoms over a two-year period, but didn’t believe anything sinister was at play.
‘I had extreme tiredness, shortness of breath, itchy skin and random pains for years, but I thought it was nothing to worry about,’ Roy says.
She visited the doctor just in case, but believed her health complications were due to follicular eczema and the other issues were merely a result of aging.
‘For two years I had become extremely tired and out of shape but I thought it was just part of being older. [Then] I started getting random pains that I blamed on myself,’ she recalled.
But in time, she noticed a large lump on her neck in September and asked a doctor for an ultrasound which then led to …