A student who first went to A&E after suffering from "unbearable" back pain has been told he has just weeks to live. Dylan Lamb, 20, who studies at the University of Liverpool, thought he'd just pulled a muscle when he started getting pain in April 2022.
But on April 28, 2022, his world fell apart during a trip to A&E with him mum, Kim, after the pain became worse, reports the Liverpool ECHO.
A blood test confirmed his white blood cell count was "through the roof" and he was admitted to hospital for further tests. The student was diagnosed with Precursor T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia and three days later started having chemotherapy.
Dylan's girlfriend of three years, Phoebe Cole, 20, said: "He had this lower back pain that could have been multiple different things, he thought he had pulled a muscle.
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