Strictly Come Dancing fans were left feeling 'sick' as they shared their complaints about an issue spotted before this year's winners were announced. After 13 weeks of dancing and dance-offs, Saturday night (December 16) marked the grand final of the BBC One dance contest.
"I kissed my children before heading into hospital - I thought ‘this is serious'"
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A perfectly fit and healthy mum, Lynsey Gregory chalked her tiredness down to having a new-born. Deciding to get back into her active lifestyle in January 2019, Lynsey took a tumble which ultimately led to a devastating diagnosis.
During one of her first games back at netball, the then 33-year-old from Wigan fell over. The fall itself wasn't really unusual, it's the nature of the game, but it was the bruising that followed that sparked cause for concern.
“The bruising came up almost immediately on my arms and they were very dark. The bruising was still there over a week later and it was actually my own mum who flagged with me that it should’ve disappeared by then.
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“It was only when I was at a routine appointment with my son Theo, that I asked the doctor about my bruising. They ran a blood test on me and when the results came back they found that my platelet count was very low.”
Doctors told Lynsey to come back another day to repeat the test to see if there was a pattern. She said: “I went for the test again which was on a Tuesday, and that night I got a call from the on-call doctor telling me I had to go to hospital because my platelet count was 30 and they should be between 150-450.
“He said I would have to go have a transfusion and I just panicked. I remember kissing my children on the head before heading into the hospital because I was thinking ‘this is serious.’”
While Lynsey didn’t end up having the transfusion, she was kept in overnight which left her “really upset” and “devastated” that she
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