A woman who was branded an 'attention seeker' by her GP, was then later diagnosed with a deadly disease. Vikki Hindley, 41, was turned away from her practice before being delivered the tragic news that she had a cancerous brain tumour.Doctors diagnosed her with squamous cell carcinoma, which had sadly spread to the frontal lobe of her brain.
Manchester Evening News reports that the condition caused Vikki, who was just 16 at the time, to lose an eye.She said: "I’d been suffering from headaches and nausea; I couldn’t study or eat and I was losing so much weight.''I went to the GP but I was told I was ‘fine’.
I went several times, and the GP told my mum I was anorexic and was attention seeking.“I couldn’t believe it. I thought ‘are you joking?’ "I wasn’t too bothered at the time as I was young and naïve but as I’ve got older, the way I was treated has made me angry.”The 41-year-old now lives in Manchester, but was living in Cornwall with her mum at the time.
During her summer holiday in 1997, Vikki visited her gran in Manchester who took her to a local GP. He sent her to Wythenshawe Hospital for a sinus wash which found a polyp.
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