A young dancer who thought her fatigue and headaches were caused by 5-hour long practice sessions was horrified to find she was actually suffering from advanced cancer. Libby Sunter, 20, began experiencing head pain, extreme fatigue and blackouts while studying musical theatre at Leeds University , where she would dance several hours a day. But after a sudden seizure, she was rushed to A&E and told she was simply suffering from anaemia – despite multiple blood tests, scans, and a spinal tap to check for meningitis .
Libby continued feeling poorly, forcing her to return to her family home in Childwall. It wasn't until she became seriously unwell and could barely stand that she was given the devastating news that she had stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma . 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, then 18, was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma ( Image: Liverpool Echo) The student was rushed to A&E when she became seriously unwell and could barely stand ( Image: Liverpool Echo) Libby, who was just .