When Lindy Hunt woke at night with agonising pain in her ankle two years ago, she figured she must’ve done something to it while playing with her granddaughter.
But by the time it got so bad she couldn’t walk, Lindy was taken by ambulance to hospital, where doctors found an infection caused by bacteria from the gut. Shockingly, five weeks later, the then-49-year-old learnt her problems were far greater than an aching ankle. Lindy had terminal bowel cancer.
“They did a CT scan and found lesions all through
