A young dancer who put her tiredness and headaches down to five hours of gruelling practice each day was horrified to discover she was actually suffering from advanced cancer. Libby Sunter, 20, was studying musical theatre at Leeds University and dancing for hours every day when she began to suffer from head pain, extreme fatigue and blackouts. After experiencing a sudden seizure, she was taken to A&E - but despite six days of blood tests, scans, and even a spinal tap to check for meningitis, she was informed that she was simply suffering from anaemia (a lack healthy red blood cells).
But she continued to feel unwell, and was forced to return to her family home in . She said: "I was really, really ill at home. I wasn't eating.
I couldn't get out of bed. And then I had a really high temp and went straight back to A&E. "By the time I went back into A&E I couldn't even stand by myself.
My mum and dad were holding me up. They got me straight through onto a bed and went over all the notes from Leeds, and within a matter of days they were discussing the possibility of lymphoma. "I was in for about 10 or 11 days, and within a week I had a biopsy and was given the diagnosis not long after.
" Libby, who was just 18 at the time, was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma - cancer of the lymphatic system. She said: "I think the biggest shock was, I thought I was very healthy. It was so unexpected.
Even the symptoms I was having I completely brushed off and didn't even think they could b.
