Student given devastating diagnosis after writing off tiredness as just hangovers
12.09.2022 - 20:27
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A student was given a devastating diagnosis after writing off her tiredness to hangovers and a big workload. Molly Hunt was developing stomach pains from October 2021 every time she drank before two big lumps appeared on her collarbone and her skin started to itch four months later.
The 21-year-old was initially told this was probably glandular fever but unfortunately was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin lymphoma in June. The aspiring air hostess has since been undergoing chemotherapy after the cancer was discovered in the left side of her neck as well an 8cm mass in her chest, WalesOnline reports.
Molly, from Buckinghamshire, said: "I was extremely tired. It would get to 1pm and I'd crash, I'd feel like I was in a dream. I couldn't really focus on a lot of things as the tiredness was that bad.
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"Sometimes I thought it was a hangover and sometimes I put it down to the workload at uni. I thought I was overdoing myself. I found myself going to less and less lectures because I was just so tired.
"Even if I went to bed at 10pm sometimes I'd be waking up at 1pm because I was exhausted. I'd get a bit scared to go out on my own without my friends and boyfriend Harry because the tiredness would just hit me out of nowhere and I'd go a bit funny with it to."
Molly was in her second year of university studying geography when her symptoms first developed. Molly added: "I was going out and drinking quite a lot and the day after I'd get a really bad pain in my tummy underneath my diaphragm.
"I felt like I had to contract to get the pain away and tense my whole body, it was quite a surreal pain. I just thought 'oh this is new, my
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