'Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, now I might lose my bladder'

Abbie Jarvis has spoken of the moment her life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with late-stage bladder cancer - a condition usually associated with people who are 30 years older than her - aged just 27.

She knew something was wrong after she began to experience pelvic pain so severe that walking became impossible and traces of blood were found in her urine in October of last year.

Despite visiting A&E multiple times due to her severe symptoms doctors were stumped about what could be causing them. She was eventually given a cystoscopy, which revealed she had grade three bladder cancer. But Abbie says when she was diagnosed, she 'just felt numb' because she was in so much shock - as most people who are told they have the disease are in their sixties.

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She said: "They told me my biopsy had come back and that I had a tumour. I didn't take it in for a seconds, I just felt numb and didn't say anything - my eyes were just filling up.

"I had to get my head around it, especially because I was on my own. The nurse was trying to speak to me and tell me about the whole process and it was going in one ear and out of the other ear. She would say certain words to me and it didn't make sense."

Abbie started with symptoms, including needing to wee often and having blood in her urine, in October last year. She says she went to her local GP around four times and A&E three times in total, but each time was told doctors didn't know what was wrong with her.

Abbie was then she could have an overactive bladder or painful bladder syndrome before being diagnosed with cancer - despite having having 'quite a lot' of the symptoms.

"I went to my