Fatigued, breathless, filled with constant aches and pains in her ribs, and entirely lacking in energy, sales assistant Pritpal Kaur knew she was deeply unwell. “I could have slept all day,” says the 73 year old from Hillingdon, West London, of her symptoms, which began in May 2023. “I was back and forth to my GP surgery telling them about what was happening to me, but they offered no solutions.
” Then one morning, things took a dramatic turn. “I couldn’t move at all,” says Pritpal. “I was meant to get up for work but I was in so much agony I was screaming.
My daughter Minreet helped me to slowly get out of the bed and took me straight to the GP, who finally saw I was in so much pain that I was sent to A&E.” There, preliminary tests and scans found nothing, so Pritpal was sent home with a referral for an ultrasound to check for gallstones, which also came back clear. “At this point I couldn’t even take a full breath,” she recalls.
“Eventually I was sent for a CT scan, which showed a narrowing of one artery, so I was diagnosed with mild angina and given blood thinners, but I continued to feel worse and worse.” Dunelm's 'most comfortable' hanging egg chair is 'perfect for British weather' "Cancer really just wasn’t on my radar" ( Image: COLLECT) Over the next few months, Pritpal developed severe lower back pain and cramps all over her body. “I went back to my GP yet again.
This time I was fobbed off with the line that it was all down to old age an.
