Mum admitted to hospital on Christmas Day gets 'gut-wrenching' diagnosis
03.10.2023 - 08:11
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A single mum who 'goes out of her way to help others' was given a 'gut-wrenching' diagnosis after being admitted to hospital on Christmas Day.
Jennifer Leighton, from Wirral, was told she had an aggressive form of lymphoma in December last year and was taken to hospital after contracting an infection. After four rounds of chemotherapy, she had to be readmitted to A&E earlier this year after contracting sepsis.
The mum-of-three, who qualified as a GP before being diagnosed, faces a stem cell transplant in the coming weeks which will increase her chances of going into long-term remission, reports the Liverpool ECHO.
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Jennifer's friend, Louise Furnival, said that while the treatment has been “gut-wrenching”, the hardest part for the doting mum is spending time away from her children. Louise told the ECHO: “She is a single mum of three children and I met her on the school run when she stopped to help an unwell pregnant mum. That is what Jennifer is like she goes out of her way to help others.
“It has been a tough year being away from them. It has been gut-wrenching, when she has been well enough they have been able to visit her but it has been very difficult. Her mum has moved in to look after the children.”
On Christmas Day last year Jennifer was admitted to hospital and remained there until February 3 this year. At the end of May, after the end of her fourth round of chemo, the mum was readmitted to A&E with neutropenic sepsis.
Louise said: “The sepsis brought fevers, fast heart rate, and very low blood pressure… She spent two weeks in the critical care unit, then had surgery to give her a colostomy stoma to give her body a