Young mother waited year for cancer diagnosis

A young mother has said she spent a whole year waiting for her cancer to be diagnosed, despite having a tumour on her face ‘getting bigger by the day’.

“I remember meeting a consultant in the A&E department and he was just baffled; he didn’t know what to do, he didn’t know what to say.A few months afterwards, the world changed when COVID-19 arrived in Ireland, plunging the health service into a crisis as thousands of people fell ill with the deadly virus.“I was just watching this cancerous tumour get bigger, literally, by the day on my head.

“I sent the ultrasound picture, I sent pictures of myself, you could visibly see this tumour sticking outside my head.It was only in September 2019 - 12 months after she discovered a lump - that Donna Marie got a biopsy. “I discovered this 12 months previously; I did everything right, I followed all the guidelines, I did everything correct but I had to fight and fight and fight just to get a diagnosis.

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