GIRL'S LIMP LED TO CANCER DIAGNOSIS

BY BILLY GADDI

A MUM is urging parents to be aware of the hidden signs of cancer after her daughter was diagnosed with the disease - days after she started limping.
Carly-Rae Gilbert, from Elgin, Moray, was set to celebrate her sixth birthday when her world was turned upside down.
Just 48 hours after she developed a simple limp, she was fighting for her life after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Her mum, Samantha Stevenson, 33, rushed her to A&E at the town's Dr Gray's Hospital on November 11 after noticing the limp.
Reassured it was probably a viral infection causing hip irritation, they left, but the Bishopmill Primary pupil became very sleepy, her temperature soared and her mum took her back to A&E on November 13. The doctors then told her Carly-Rae had cancer.
She began chemotherap...

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