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Brave West Lothian women discovers back pain is actually deadly blood cancer
Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.A brave West Lothian mum was floored after doctors found her ‘sciatica’ pain was actually a symptom of a deadly blood cancer which had hollowed out her bones.Judith Green had suffered from back pain on several occasions over the last 10 years but was repeatedly told it was likely due to a trapped nerve and would resolve itself.The 42-year-old’s pain became too much in June 2019 when she woke screaming in the middle of the night before repeatedly vomiting blood over the next two days.She took herself to St John’s Hospital in Livingston where doctors soon made the shock diagnosis of myeloma cancer which had left her kidneys functioning at only 15
