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Misdiagnosis Cancer: New Mama Kaley dies within a few days


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"If there's a god out there, then no other woman should fare like me."

Kaley was in pain in the hip. A sports injury - so her doctor. A few months later, the young mother is dead. The diagnosis: bone cancer.

Kaley Fitzsimmons has to undergo a kidney transplant as a teenager. The greater the joy when she becomes pregnant for the first time almost two years ago. "I wanted nothing more than to become a mother, and I am very grateful that the transplant enabled me to do that, " she tells the Daily Mail. Nine months later, Kaley gives birth to a healthy girl. What happens then - a nightmare.

Doctors blamed the pain in her hip on 'over exercising'. Now she has just days to live.

Posted by Daily Mail on Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Three months after her daughter's birth, Kaley starts working as a fitness trainer again. What worries you after a few days? The stinging pain in her hip. The young woman goes to see a doctor and lets herself be checked. The investigations: inconclusive. She wanted too much too soon, her doctor said. Kaley drives home, keeps working - but the pain gets worse. She goes to a doctor again, asks for a CT. As it turns out - too late. Seven months after Kaley first told her doctor about her pain, another doctor diagnosed bone cancer. Neither chemotherapy nor amputation can save their lives.

Hoping to slow the growth of the cancer, she decides to have a leg amputation - in vain. Last week, she receives a terrible diagnosis: she has only a few hours left to live. "The transplant gave me a great life and a wonderful daughter, " she says in her last hours. "If there's a god out there, then no other woman should fare like me." "Take better care of yourself than I did, " Kaley tells her family.

"I love my daughter and my husband so much, I do not want to leave her" - the last words of Kaley Fitzsimmons are heartfelt.

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