34-Year-Old Mom Was Repeatedly Misdiagnosed With Constipation But It Turned Out To Be Something Else
A beloved 34-year-old mom, from County Durham in North East England, was repeatedly misdiagnosed with constipation before passing away from cervical cancer earlier this month.
Louise Gray, a mom of five who previously fought cervical cancer in the early months of 2021, started feeling sick again in November last year, but her family insisted she wasn’t checked for cancer and was told the bowel problems she was experiencing were due to constipation. Despite Gray’s suspicion about the cancer returning, doctors treated her with laxatives.
It wasn’t until seven weeks ago that Gray collapsed, was rushed to the hospital, and learned she had terminal cancer. After two blood transfusions and further testing, doctors discovered cancer had spread throughout her body, in her bowel, liver, lymph nodes, and pelvis.
Gray passed away from the disease on November 3 and now her family is urging others to seek push for medical advice when they feel something isn’t right.
After her first operation, she got sepsis and began to get infection after infection. Louise returned to the doctors and said to them she thought she might have bowel cancer as her bowel problems had continued,” Judith Spence, Gray’s 51-year-old aunt, told SWNS. “She was told by the doctor she was being ridiculous and that she had piles and was given laxatives.”
Spence continued, “She then returned to the doctors when her bowl problems hadn’t changed and was given even stronger laxatives. When my sister [Louise’s mum] called 999 seven weeks ago, Louise was so poorly, and her potassium levels were so low. We thought she was going to die. The whole situation has just been horrendous. It went so quickly from one thing to another.”
Now Spence is hoping to raise awareness to prevent others from having something like this happen to their family.
If the doctors aren’t listening to you, you need to keep pressing and pushing. Louise was a bubbly, fun loving, witty individual,” she concluded.
