Woman who was told dizziness was just postnatal symptom faced 10 months of chemotherapy
A mother who was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of leukaemia just weeks after giving birth to her daughter, and was initially told the symptoms were postnatal, faced eight rounds of gruelling chemotherapy in 10 months but is now in remission and hopeful for “freedom”.
Elizabeth Gibson-Bell, 27, a primary teacher who lives in Littlehampton, West Sussex, had a “normal” pregnancy and gave birth to her daughter Lydia on January 1 2023.
Two weeks later, Elizabeth developed symptoms including dizziness, bruising, and mastitis – inflammation of breast tissue – but was told by her GP that it was “nothing to worry about”.
She continued to feel unwell and started noting down her symptoms, but when she could not even carry her 10lb baby up the stairs due to feeling too weak, she knew “this wasn’t
