When Jennifer McNeill’s back started hurting, she thought she’d pulled a muscle after picking up her young children.
“The doctors said I had probably strained it whilst lifting them,” the mom of Millie, now 6, and Aidan, now 4, told South West News Service, via The Daily Mail.
She was told to seek physical therapy, but as the pain continued, McNeill, 34, went for private treatment. An MRI showed two fractures on her spine.
But the Gourock, Scotland, mom says her condition continued to deteriorate. Soon she was unable to urinate, and the pain “got so severe that I could barely walk.”
In July 2021, she sought treatment at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where a CT scan discovered a cancerous tumor on her spine.
Doctors discovered that she had stage IV breast cancer that had spread to her…