Mum given devastating cancer diagnosis after waking up looking 'pregnant'

A mum went through a 'bottle of Gaviscon a day' before she was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Linsey Farrington, from Widnes in Cheshire, started experiencing chest pains in April of last year and described the pain as "horrendous".

The 37-year-old said doctors diagnosed her with pleurisy, which is inflammation of the sheet-like layer that cover the lungs. The mum-of-two was given medication and had underwent tests and scans on her lungs which came back clear.

However, Linsey's pain would not go away, despite her taking strong medication and going "through a bottle of Gaviscon a day". Following numerous blood tests and scans, Linsey became seriously ill over the Easter weekend.

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She said overnight her stomach swelled, was "humongous" and she looked pregnant, the Liverpool ECHO reports.

Linsey said: "I couldn't move, I couldn't walk, I was just vomiting. It came out the blue. I woke up and it was enormous. I went to A&E and they said there was a nine hour wait in A&E and they said 'we will send you for an emergency scan in three weeks time'.

"So I obviously came home because they said we will just wait. Then on Easter Monday I went back in and said I am not moving and I can't cope with this pain.

"They scanned me and found all this fluid in my stomach. They did a CAT scan and said they thought they found cancer cells in my omentum, which is my abdominal wall, so they then did surgery to remove the fluid.

"They removed 12 litres of fluid from my stomach and then did a biopsy and from then it was a whirlwind five weeks. The fluid then built up again and I had to have another operation and 10 litres of it drained. They then fitted me with a