tumour in her chest.Eloise May, 20, woke up in the night with a pain in her arm and chest, thinking it was either a horse riding injury or the after effects of coming home drunk the night before.
She was in for the shock of her life when she doctors found a non-Hodgkin lymphoma tumour compressing the vein taking blood from her brain to her heart, reports Liverpool Echo.Biopsy samples of the tumour looked like "little white worms" in a pot and would kill the Liverpool John Moores University student without treatment.The sport and exercise student told the ECHO: "My life as I knew it, being a student, living in a student house, has been completely ripped from under my feet."The social life that I did have is basically non-existent.
I've had to defer uni. It's quite difficult because obviously I'm seeing everyone finishing their dissertations and graduating and I'm like, 'That should be me', but there's always next year."Eloise is already more than half way through an intensive course of chemotherapy at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool.
Doctors hope she won't have to undergo radiotherapy if this round of treatment succeeds. Eloise is managing to stay positive despite losing her hair, which was "the worst thing in the world".For the latest breaking news stories and incredible tales from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.This week, she received a text saying she'd be sent £350 from Giddo's Gift, a charity set up by the mum of Jordan Giddins, an 18-year-old from Flint who died of Ewings Sarcoma in 2017.
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