A mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when doctors detected her symptoms while giving birth. Lois Walker, 37, suffered from a stomach ache for 12 months which she said had been dismissed by doctors as “hypochondria”.
It was only when her son Ray was born by cesarean section in September 2021 that she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, after surgeons found cancer of her ovaries, abdomen lining and lymph nodes.
The mother of three first felt unwell in June 2020 when she experienced strange bathing habits and swelling around her diaphragm. He claims to have made 20 calls to his GP during confinement and made numerous trips to A&E, only to receive medication for anxiety and was told to stay away from dairy.
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Lois said, “It’s been absolutely evil. They’re called health professionals and they’re supposed to take care of us, but that’s negligence.
“I feel like it could have been detected earlier, so I wouldn’t have this late diagnosis, and I’m leaving three children.
“If the NHS doesn’t recognize that things need to change, I’m sorry for everyone.”
He regularly called Dove Valley Practice doctors in Worsbrough and visited Barnsley Hospital, but says he was told he could have irritable bowel syndrome.
Lois continued to call her GP as her symptoms worsened, but claims that doctors only offered her medication for hypochondria.
She said: “I was going to the doctors, but I couldn’t tell them anything new because they were always the same symptoms, so they treated me with antacids.
“Then they told me it might be health anxiety, so they put me on citalopram.
“I was already suffering from skin cancer, so I said to my doctor, ‘Don’t you think I might have cancer?’
“And he said, ‘Oh, no, you’re just getting old and your bodies aren’t working so well.’
Louis Walker and his baby Ray (Image: Lois Walker / SWNS)
Lois discovered she was pregnant in December 2020 and, 14 weeks later, suffered terrible pain after exploring gender revelations.
She said: “I couldn’t cope with this pain, and the more I got pregnant, the more unbearable it became. It got to the point where I couldn’t walk or eat.
“The doctor said she weighed the same as she did 12 months ago and at the time she was nine months pregnant, and that didn’t seem to sound any alarm.”
Lois said that when the pain was too much to bear, she finally told the doctors that she was ready to commit suicide if her worries were not taken seriously.
She was admitted to the hospital to treat the pain where she was given morphine, but again she says doctors did not investigate in depth what was causing the pain.
Lois added: “Then the last drop was when they had to involve the mental health team because I said I had reached the point where we should end our lives, and I’m ashamed to say. ho “.
Lois’s doctor then did a more thorough investigation into their concerns and found a mass behind her belly, which led them to give birth to their baby the next day.
And on September 3, 2021, when she parted ways with her third child, Ray, she was discovered by the doctor treating her that she probably had cancer.
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Lois said, “When they opened me up, he said, ‘I thought you said you didn’t have abdominal surgery?’ and I said no.
“It simply came to our notice then.
“They just said, basically, my abdomen was so sick they had to send in some biopsies and I had to wait. But I knew it anyway.”
Despite undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy and two surgeries shortly after her diagnosis, Lois was told that her cancer had spread and would be terminal.
She said, “My liver had fused with my diaphragm, so it had to be trimmed. My bladder had fused in the back of my belly, so it had to be cut, and all my ovaries had fused.
“It simply came to our notice then. Obviously, that’s never good: they’re my main organs I need. “
“It’s a comfortable life for the time I have left, and that’s where we are right now.”
Lois was diagnosed with terminal cancer when she gave birth (Image: Lois Walker / SWNS)
As he approached for comments, a Dove Valley Practice spokesman said:
“We reviewed Ms Walker ‘s attention and references for evidence and shared these findings with her at the time.
“We welcome anyone who is concerned about the attention they have received from us to get in touch so we can investigate.
“Unfortunately, we are unable to comment further due to our duty of confidentiality.”
A spokesman for Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust added: “Barnsley Hospital is sorry to hear that Mrs Walker has concerns about her care.
“We welcome any patient who has concerns about the care they have received to contact our Patient Advice and Complaints Team, which investigates patients’ concerns to ensure that actions are taken in a timely manner. timely and appropriate “.
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