A beloved mother was told her pain was "nothing to worry about" - just weeks before dying of pancreatic cancer. Catherine Vaughan had lost over five stone and was “abnormally” vomiting amid having no appetite when she was told she had coeliac disease.
49-year-old Catherine’s daughter, Jade Acton, from Walton in Merseyside, told how her mum had started to get pains in her stomach but had put it down to the grief of losing Jade’s dad.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, she said: “They were never aggressive pains but they were always there, she also lost a lot of weight.
But in between all of this my dad passed away. “She went to the doctors about the pains and weight loss, they took her bloods and she was told she had type two diabetes.
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