Jess and Ryan met at Lancaster University in 2015 and spent four years as a carefree young couple, moving in together and forging their careers in their early twenties.
But just six months after moving in together, when Ryan was just 22, they began a nightmare. Ryan Lloyd complained of feeling hungover after seeing friends, but that was joined by more sinister symptoms.
He started getting continuous night sweats and weight loss, which didn’t improve leading him to see a GP. The Stockport couple then found out he had cancer. READ MORE: 'I was seven months pregnant...
I thought it was just a normal side-effect' Ryan said the diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma came as a relief because there was a reason for why he was feeling so ill.
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