 unit at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. His girlfriend Jess, who he'd met at university in 2015, and his parents took it in turns to keep him company during that time, and he was given the all-clear in January 2020. Unfortunately, check-ups in 2021 found irregularities in his red blood cell count, and after more biopsies, Ryan was given the crushing news that his cancer was back – this time in his neck and spleen. Due to Covid restrictions, Ryan wasn't allowed to have company on the ward as he went through chemo. In July of that year, Ryan was given the all-clear again, and, armed with his health, he had a very important mission in mind – to propose to Jess. He said: 'Jess was so supportive){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
A man who was diagnosed with stage four cancer aged 22 says the first warning sign was being violently ill after three beers.
Ryan Lloyd, now 26, first had an idea that something was wrong when he woke up in the night after a visit to a Christmas market in 2018 and felt terribly sick.
Ryan, from Birmingham, first thought he’d caught a stomach bug from the glasses, but the next two months saw him lose 2.5 stone and suffer night sweats.
Tests revealed his white blood cell count was high.