Scots mum told three times by medics she had acid reflux when it was actually terminal cancer

tumour to “light up”, allowing her surgeon to remove more of it than would normally have been possible.Catherine, from East Kilbride, had been having headaches and, in agony, went to Hairmyres Hospital in April 2019.After a brain scan, she was shocked to learn her growing confusion and headaches were caused by the most aggressive type of nervous system tumour, a grade 4 astrocytoma.Catherine was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

mum who almost choked to death when she was a baby has thanked the hero Asda worker who saved her 26 years ago. Jodie McLaughlin, 27, had stopped breathing in Asda carpark in Blantyre when George Barclay sprung into action to save her.

beauty after being inspired by time spent living on the Italian island of Sardinia, where donkeys graze on lush pastures herded by shepherds. Donkey's milk is certainly not to be sniffed at, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra is said to have bathed in gallons of the stuff to achieve glowing skin.

accident.Philip McFadden was at a family BBQ in Kirkintilloch on June 20 when a mishap on a 6ft trampoline changed his life forever.The 36-year-old was playing with his niece shortly after families were allowed to meet outdoors for the first time since lockdown.He fell backwards on a trampoline causing him to smack his back on the ground.Philip, from Muirhead, instantly knew something was seriously wrong when he realised he couldn't move his legs.The debt management manager said: "I was trying

cannabis drugs into the country to help save her desperately sick son yesterday begged the Scottish Government to fund his medicine.Karen Gray, 46, from Edinburgh, travelled to the Netherlands to get cannabis-based drugs with previously banned tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in them after her youngest child Murray, now eight, ended up in a vegetative state in hospital.Murray was diagnosed with Doose syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, in December 2017 and suffered up to 12 seizures a day.But within

mum has lost eight stone for the second time after comfort eating to deal with eight miscarriages before finally having a baby boy. Mum-of-two Sandra Malcolmson tipped the scales at a whopping 21 stones after years of unhealthy eating and in 2017, at her heaviest, she suffered four heartbreaking miscarriages.

bedroom into a stunning space as a surprise for her 21st birthday. Shirley Hill, 54, from Kilmarnock, decided to downsize her home when five of her six children moved out.

mum has blasted Amazon after they were caught selling offensive Down's syndrome t-shirts for the second time this year.Stacey Corrigan, whose six-year-old son Daniel Murray has Downs' syndrome, spotted the t-shirts for sale on the selling site and was furious.One of the tops is emblazoned with the caption "Make Down's Syndrome extinct, while another pictures a five star rating system with one star highlighted and says "Down's syndrome - Very bad.

baby’s skull deformity before it’s too late.Heidi Aitken is 11 months old and has brachycephaly, or flat head syndrome.She should have had treatment when she was five or six months but her mum Shannagh said she was talked out of it by health visitors.If Heidi doesn’t get it soon, her skull soft spot will close and her head will be misshapen for life.The treatment is not available on the NHS and the family need to raise £2000 to pay for the helmet.Heidi’s head, the result of a breech birth, is as

SPIDER BITE left her tot needing emergency surgery for a 'tangerine-sized abscess'.Emily-Jane Stuart had been at a funfair when she is believed to have been bitten by the eight-legged creature while playing on the slides, initially leaving a pin-prick-sized sore on her arm.The six-year-old carried on enjoying her day but her mum Ashley Simpson, 26, noticed a bright red sore rapidly spreading across her skin two days later.Soon the bite had turned into a bulbous blister that would not pop and

transgender child’s frozen sperm from being destroyed has won a 'temporary reprieve'. Louise Anderson, 45, plans to go to the highest court in Scotland after being told samples saved by her 16-year-old daughter Ellie –  who died suddenly in July this year – could be soon destroyed by the NHS.

mum of a Scots schoolgirl fighting cancer has shared shocking pictures of the brutal treatment she has endured in her battle with the disease. Sharon McCallister says she could 'smell' cancer on daughter Kaiann weeks before doctors finally diagnosed her with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - a type of cancer so rare that only 650 people in the UK are diagnosed with it per year.

mum claims she was trapped in her house for two days and forced to eat pizza through her window after Argos delivery drivers blocked her only exit with her new couches. Sarah Miller, from Tayport, in Fife, said staff told her they were unable to bring the two sofas up her stairs because that would breach new coronavirus restrictions.

shopper has hit out after her hand got covered in human faeces whilst buying chicken nuggets from Iceland.Mum-of-four Lynne McCabe said she was horrified to discover she had been smeared in poo after putting her hand inside a freezer in the Saltcoats store at 3.30pm yesterday.Lynne, from Kilwinning, realised there was human excrement on the packaging of the nuggets she was buying for her children's dinner when she accidentally touched her nose.The 35-year-old said: "The smell was awful.

daughter's first birthday after a long battle with cancer.Jolene Patrick was told just weeks after giving birth in August last year that her triple negative breast cancer had returned for a second time and had already spread to her lymph nodes, liver, ribs, lungs and bones.The 31-year-old from Stenhousemuir, Falkirk, fought the disease but sadly lost her fight on August 22, the same day her 'miracle baby' Emmeline turned one.Jolene's devastated husband Alan said he will never understand why his

Hospital, were smashed in the early hours of Sunday morning. Cancer patients had their appointments cancelled at the facility after the charity was forced to cancel their slots.

missing Scots mum who vanished more than 50 years ago have released a computer-generated image of what she would look like today. Isabella Skelton, nee Dowell, from Glasgow, was living in Manchester when she left her home in June 1969 and never came back.

neighbour-from-hell attacked five police officers after they arrived to break up her asbo-breaching nine hour through the night party.Sarah Stewart, 23, reacted by tearing off their PPE and telling them she had coronavirus, as well as threatening to firebomb their families.Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Stewart for 27 months and told her: "It is quite clear that on the night in question you caused considerable difficulty to your upstairs neighbour when there was an asbo against you."You paid no

mum -of-five says her family had a lucky escape after they were roused by a fire as it ripped through their back garden. Kat Roy, from Kilwinning, was woken by the inferno just inches from her home as her family slept in their beds.