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Mum's lingering Covid symptom led to brutal diagnosis - key details
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Need to know Mum's lingering Covid symptom led to brutal diagnosis - key details Michaela could not shake the symptom - then she went to see a doctor Mum reveals what happened when she saw doctor about lingering Covid symptom - what you need to know - A mum-of-two who thought her persistent cough was a lingering symptom of Covid was diagnosed with a rare cancer after going to hospital. - Michaela Riley, then 34, had a cough that simply would not go - and after 19 days, while still in pain,...
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Mum's lingering Covid symptom led to brutal diagnosis - key details
Michaela could not shake the symptom - then she went to see a doctor
Mum reveals what happened when she saw doctor about lingering Covid symptom - what you need to know
- A mum-of-two who thought her persistent cough was a lingering symptom of Covid was diagnosed with a rare cancer after going to hospital.
- Michaela Riley, then 34, had a cough that simply would not go - and after 19 days, while still in pain, she sought medical advice.
- When her brutal diagnosis was revealed, she went on to have a 6.4cm stage three thymoma affecting her thymus gland. She had 21 rounds of chemotherapy before undergoing a complex five-hour operation at Guy's Hospital in September 2021.
- The tumour had spread into a major vein near her heart, which surgeons had to rebuild. Michaela said the diagnosis made her fear she might never hug her son again.
- Now five years cancer-free, she has annual check-ups and has since welcomed a daughter. She said: "Having cancer and surviving it has given me the chance to start again."
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