The story of a 29-year-old pregnant woman named Lindsey Gritton: the doctor diagnoses her with mastitis, then discovers the sad reality
Her story went around the world and it was she who wanted to spread it. Her name is Lindsey Gritton and one day, while she was 34 weeks pregnant, he realized that something was wrong with her.
She was about to become a mother for the second time and had carried on a pregnancy without any complications. She then she came that day, in which she started accusing a burning very strong under the armpit and that reached up to the breast.
Lindsey Gritton initially thought it might be a accumulation of milk and a blocked duct, so he tried to massage to loosen it. But that wasn’t the case at all.
To the touch it felt like one small marble and so he thought it best to see a doctor. The latter, after a visit, diagnosed her with one mastitis and sent her home with a prescription for some antibiotics.
Lindsey Gritton left that studio, but she couldn’t get rid of that strange feeling. She knew it wasn’t like that, that something was wrong. She he felt it.
He decided to undergo further tests and to hear another opinion. She thus discovered the sad reality.
I looked at the doctor’s face, he kept looking at the screen. The results indicated a high probability of cancer and a biopsy later confirmed this. An invasive ductal carcinoma.
They told me that the disease had probably already spread due to the size of the tumor. But since I was pregnant, they weren’t able to find out. They needed to have a PET scan, which could put my child at risk, due to radiation exposure.
After a week the doctors decided to induce childbirth of the young mother and therefore to bring forward the term of the gestation by three weeks.
The 29-year-old hugged her in her arms his little girl and then underwent all the necessary checks. She found out she had breast cancer fourth stage and that the metastases had spread to the liver.
After two weeks he started the chemotherapy. Today 80% of the bad disease has disappeared and hopes to be able to heal completely. Her story moved the whole world and she became famous and very followed on social media.
If I hadn’t defended myself, I don’t even think I’d be here today. Because from what they told me with my blood test and all, my liver was already failing.
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