A MUM-OF-THREE has died just months after doctors revealed her dodgy tummy was actually cancer. Olivia Renga was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in mid-January and tragically died in June, at the age of 33. She leaves behind young daughters Neve, Wilkie and Elliot and her high school sweetheart Josh.
The mum was riddled with neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma , which was deemed rare and aggressive because it's typically found in the lungs, not the liver. Olivia and Josh from Ballarat, Australia were "hoping for a miracle" when the mum started chemotherapy, but the worst happened and Josh was left a single father. "We are devastated and are just navigating things best we can," he told MailOnline .
"It burns me inside thinking about what our future might look like," he added. Olivia had initially started to experience nausea and abdominal discomfort in late November last year which at first was "nothing of concern". But on Christmas Eve she collapsed in sudden and extreme pain which left her bedridden for the rest of the day.
Since no doctors surgeries were open over the festive period, she pushed through the pain before finally seeing a GP to get tested. Her results came back fine, and her symptoms weren't considered serious because she didn't have any family history of liver cancer. She decided to get a second opinion from another GP who sent her to the hospital for further testing.
Josh, who runs his own business, recalled Olivia visiting him at work to share the dread.
