 Amy Haigh, 27, was a fitness fanatic until she got the diagnosis so many of us dread. Amy suffered a fall while horse riding in March 2022, and started to have a hard time finishing workouts at the gym when she decided to get checked out. But two physiotherapists, a chiropractor and an osteopath weren't able to help the problem, and Amy started to feel 'really off' Her knee had started swelling whenever she exercised, and she started feeling a 'dull ache' – but she put her pain down to the gym. That was until a personal trainer recommended she get checked out by a doctor, so she went for several scans in the summer before finally getting an MRI in September, which revealed the horrifying truth – it was a high-grade bone cancer (osteosarcoma). 'I lived a very active and healthy lifestyle and never, ever had any health issues besides from the occasional cold,' Amy, an early childhood teacher from Auckland, New Zealand, said. 'I have been training in the gym since 2019, I was an avid horse rider, I would spend the weekends walking my dogs or at the beach, and my job was also quite physically demanding. 'I was inconsolable. I cried in my car every day, I cried on my lunch break, and cried in the bathroom. 'I was horrified it was cancer, but there was also some relief because I had been trying to get to the bottom of this knee pain for so long. 'I knew something was wrong, and I was unfortunately proven right.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Amy's chemotherapy treatment began at the end of October that year. She said: 'My cycles were 35 days long and also included a two-week hospital stay where I would get plenty of fluids to help flush the chemo out of my system. 'I found these stays absolutely awful because I felt so lonely and isolated. 'My doctors and nurses at Auckland Hospital were absolutely i){kind=link}
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Amy Haigh, 27, was a fitness fanatic until she got the diagnosis so many of us dread.
Amy suffered a fall while horse riding in March 2022, and started to have a hard time finishing workouts at the gym when she decided to get checked out.
But two physiotherapists, a chiropractor and an osteopath weren’t able to help the problem, and Amy started to feel ‘really off’
Her knee had started swelling whenever she exercised, and she started feeling a ‘dull ache’ – but she put her pain down to the gym.