Horrified bride told she has cancer on wedding day despite doctor saying she was 'too fat'
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A bride discovered she had cancer hours before she got married, despite doctors earlier assuring her she was “too fat” to have it. Claire Boulton popped to the hairdresser's hours before she was due to say I do to partner Matthew Boulton, in 2019. However, instead of it being a calming experience her world was turned upside down when doctors rang to say they had found cancer in tests taken from an earlier colonoscopy.
The 47-year-old complained to doctors for five years prior due to stomach pains, nausea and blood in her stool but was never taken 'seriously'. She was left feeling like a 'burden' as doctors said she would be losing weight if she had cancer, with one doctor saying she was 'too fat' to have the disease while she struggled with weight gain.
However, Claire's persistence led to her having a colonoscopy which made the shock discovery. Claire, from Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, said: "I was shocked. You can't write my life. "On my wedding day I was sitting in the hairdressers that morning [and] got a phone call from the doctors to tell me that they had found cancer. The polyp had been removed from my body but there had been cancer in it. They said 'by the size of the polyp the possibility was the polyp itself had been growing for at least five years'.
"I thought, 'all this time of me saying there's something wrong, actually there was something wrong'. It was a nurse who rang me up and when I said 'I'm literally sitting in the hairdressers about to get married' she was like 'oh my god I'm so sorry, if I had known I wouldn't have told you'.
