EXCLUSIVE: To mark Blood Cancer Awareness Month, OK! speaks to one woman who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia after heading to a lip filler appointment
When Edita Jucaite attended her lip filler appointment earlier this year, she couldn’t have predicted how things would have turned out. Having undergone the aesthetic treatment in the past with no issues, what happened in May 2023 came as a complete surprise. In fact, it was because of her appointment that she was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia .
In addition to bruising easily, she’d been losing weight without trying, so she booked an appointment with her GP. “I joked with my GP that the internet said I had leukaemia and that it was impossible,” she explains. After meeting the consultant, Edita was told what CML was and she began receiving chemotherapy tablets straightaway, though had to visit the hospital each day for a week to ensure that her blood count was coming down - where her white blood cells should’ve been at around 10, they were initially at around the 250 mark.
“I wasn't even that concerned with the weight loss. One of my colleagues had a sister who passed away from cancer, and she noticed that I was losing weight, and she kept me nagging me to get it checked out, but I didn’t,” she admits.
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