'I was sent home from A&E with antibiotics - then I was woken by police officers banging on my door'

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When Michelle Sterling was sent home from A&E with antibiotics, she felt 'embarrassed' to have wasted NHS resources. She had been suffering with severe chest pain but a nurse told her it was just an infection.

Hours later, she was awoken by a loud and persistent banging at her front door. Michelle opened the door to find policeman stood there, explaining that they needed to take her back to hospital immediately, as the triage nurse had sent her home before the results of her blood test had come back. J oin our WhatsAp p Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link . After returning to hospital, Michelle, then 52, was told she had terminal leukaemia - a type of blood cancer - and she would need chemotherapy and a stem cell donor to survive.

Having lost her husband Edward to a brain tumour eight years prior, and didn't have any children, she said she didn't care whether she lived or died - but knew she had to try.

Despite her terminal diagnosis, Michelle, now aged 63, has been living with cancer for 10 years. “I just thought my husband would never forgive me if I hadn’t tried because he tried,” Michelle, from Wales, told PA Real Life. “But for me, I’m not really bothered whether I die; my husband is there, my parents are there, my family is there waiting for me.” Michelle started treatment the same day as her diagnosis, and received daily intensive chemotherapy intravenously for the following month, which made her hair fall out within four days.