Mum left with months to live after 'water infection' turns out to be cancer

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A hard working mum has been told she has only months left to live after her 'simple water infection' turned out to be an aggressive form of cancer.

Natalie Larkin, 41 started suffering from stomach issues in 2021 but her doctors passed it off as a series of infections and prescribed her with antibiotics.However, when the mum-of-one began passing blood clots, she was given an ultrasound which revealed a suspicious mass on one of her kidneys, the ECHO reports.

She received the heart breaking news a few weeks later after a MRI scan revealed she had a 12.7cm malignant tumour on one of her kidneys and underwent an urgent operation to remove it in June 2021.Sadly, the aggressive cancer continued to spread throughout her body and in December 2022, Natalie was told she only had 12 to 18 months left to live.

She said: "The last 18 months have been very difficult for me and my family, I’ve struggled with my diagnosis to a point where I didn’t leave the bed. "It took me to a very dark place but I took some time to process the situation and realised it was out of my control so the best thing for me was to get my positivity back and fight this terrible disease so I could be here for my daughter.