A mum who was struggling to eat and swallow was told she had acid reflux three times when she actually had terminal cancer. Jackie Johnson, 50, repeatedly tried to see a doctor when she began having difficulty eating towards the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March.
She was told three times by medics during lockdown that she had acid reflux and was plied with antacids when she was actually battling terminal cancer.
Her partner Colin Stewart, 49, said: “Jackie asked the GP if she could have cancer but he said no and told her she had a ‘classic case of acid reflux.
But no one had ever examined her.” The mum, from Kirkcaldy in Scotland, only discovered how serious her condition by reading notes a nurse left discarded on her bed
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