Beautician, 26, left paralysed after ‘doctors sent her home with acid reflux’
19.03.2022 - 17:13
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A successful beautician has had her life turned upside down following a diagnosis of a form of bone cancer after being given an initial judgement of acid reflux by doctors when she first went to hospital.
Jodie Cox, has been given a life-changing diagnosis, which has sent her world crashing down following a trip to A&E.
During the pandemic the 26-year-old felt pain and a twinge in one side of her back before doctors told her it could be kidney stones and she was sent home with a simple diagnosis of acid reflux.
However, the pain became increasingly worse, meaning salon manager, Jodie, had to make another visit to NHS 24 before being sent home again.
Things deteriorated for Jodie on January 21 last year when she and her boyfriend Luke Watson made an emergency trip to hospital as she was finding it difficult to stand.
Recalling the terrifying ordeal Luke, 28, said: “One night she started to lose feeling in her legs so I took her to A&E, she was stumbling into the hospital and I had to support her. She never walked back out of A&E.
“She was transferred to Oswestry Hospital where they discovered a tumour in her spine.”
Jodie, from Telford, was given the devastating news that she had an aggressive type of osteosarcoma - a form of bone cancer, report Birmingham Live.
Within 18 hours she lost all feeling in both legs and was paralysed from the waist down. The cancer had led to a T10 incomplete spinal cord injury. Medics also found small tumours in her lung.
The once active and fun-loving 26-year-old, who loved walking her mother-in-law’s dogs, now faced the prospect of never being able to walk again. Due to strict coronavirus restrictions, she was alone when she received the diagnosis.
Her partner, who has since given up his job