Thank God For Period Pains!

Steph says her monthly visitor saved her life.

- Cher Heasmer/Ann Cusack

Steph Hammersley, 25,

Crewe

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been cursed with bad period pains. I’d hold hot-water bottles to my tummy, take tablets, have hot baths… 

Nothing seemed to work. 

I went back and forth to see my GP, but was told I was just one of the unlucky ones.

Then in June 2015, the cramps intensified.

The next month, they were so bad that I was admitted to Leighton Hospital.

Doctors suspected appendicitis and ran tests including a chest scan.

‘We’ve found a tumour in your chest between your heart and lungs,’ a doctor explained.

The room span as I took in his words. 

‘Is it cancer?’ I asked.

But they couldn’t be sure yet.