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Faith Hinitt, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, assumed the stress of moving home was getting to her – but the reality was far worse than she imagined – and changed her life.\u00a0She started experiencing an itchy, red rash on her chest around the same time she became a homeowner in June 2023.<\/p>

The 27-year-old blamed it on the stress of moving into her first home and starting a new job at work. Faith says she had also been experiencing extreme fatigue, night sweats and hip pain, but put these symptoms down to the\u00a0stress of moving\u00a0and changing her contraception.<\/p>

The holiday park assistant manager brushed off the symptoms until a dentist requested she have a blood test in October 2023 when she failed to respond to treatment for a gum infection.<\/p>

After attending A&E two days later [October 7th], Faith received the ‘devastating’ diagnosis of acute myeloid leukaemia, an aggressive type of blood cancer.<\/p>

Faith has since undergone chemotherapy treatment and is waiting to have her second stem cell transplant in the hope that she will then enter remission.<\/p>

She is urging other people who notice something wrong with their bodies to go and get it checked out.<\/p>

\u201cIn May 2023 I started feeling really, really tired and exhausted. At the time I’d just had a job promotion, and I was buying a house – they’re two really big life changes happening at once. Buying a house on your own is obviously very, very stressful so I was blaming my tiredness on that. I also had a couple of rashes come up during that summer, which I put down to the stress of buying my first home.<\/p>

“I was having night sweats, but I’d swapped my contraception, so I thought it was because I’d come off the contraception. I blamed it on my hormones, like a normal 25-year-old would. You don’t think these are all symptoms of blood cancer.”<\/p>

Faith says she brushed off the symptoms until she was prompted to go for a blood test by her dentist, as she wasn’t responding as expected to the treatment for a gum infection.<\/p>

Faith said: “It was my dentist that told me to go to the doctors. The week in the lead up to my diagnosis, I had bleeding gums and a really bad gum infection.<\/p>

“I went to the emergency dentist and they gave me antibiotics, but they weren’t working. When I went back [to the dentist] they said my body wasn’t responding to the treatment like normal.<\/p>

“They said they’d usually see a massive difference and I needed to go to the doctor and get a blood test. I went to A&E two days later and I got told I had leukaemia.”<\/p>

Faith says the dentist appointment helped save her life after she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia on October 7th 2023.<\/p>

Faith said: “I still think we were just in shock, we just couldn’t believe it. You just don’t expect to be told news like that when you’re a fit, young, healthy 25-year-old and you’ve just bought your first house.<\/p>

“To receive news like that is devastating but if I’m honest I don’t think it really hit me until around six months later, because I was so poorly.<\/p>

“My dentist really helped in saving my life – her pushing me to go to the doctor.”<\/p>

Since then, Faith has undergone several rounds of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant in September 2024.<\/p>

She is now waiting to have her second stem cell transplant at the start of June, which she hopes will put her into remission.<\/p>

Faith said: “I’m nervous because a stem cell transplant is a really hard treatment, but I’m excited.<\/p>

“I’ve had people on social media message and say they’ve had a stem cell transplant and that they’re in remission by 10 years.<\/p>

“Over the past few years I’ve questioned if there’s ever going to be a treatment that works, and thought ‘am I forever going to be in this cycle?’.<\/p>

“I’m really feeling hopeful – that’s what I’ve got to have the mindset of, of hope.<\/p>

“This [stem cell transplant] is my best hope of being put into remission.”<\/p>

Now Faith is urging other people who experience similar symptoms to go to their doctor.<\/p>

Faith said: “Even if you think a little thing is nothing, go and get it checked out.<\/p>

“I feel like we all do know our bodies but we ignore things. If anything, I would say listen to your body.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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