Amy was told that if she went to bed with her symptoms, she wouldn't have woken up
Strictly dancer Amy Dowden says she almost died after developing life-threatening complications from the brutal chemotherapy she is undergoing in a bid to beat cancer. Amy, 33, has just undergone her fifth round of chemo, and spoke exclusively to The Mirror, detailing the devastating side effects.
After her first chemo, Amy initially “felt great”, going for a five-mile walk with her dad two days later – but she collapsed soon after. “I had a temperature and didn’t realise the severity of having a temperature. I stood up, collapsed, Mum rang the emergency number and they said ‘phone an ambulance immediately’. From there everything got very serious.
“We met the paramedics a week later and they said if I had gone to bed that night I might not have woken up the next morning.” The sepsis was caused by an infection she picked just up before her treatment. Amy discovered a lump in her breast just a day before she went on her honeymoon in April, a belated trip following her 2022 marriage to Ben, with whom she won the British National Latin Dance Championships. She had begun checking herself following a charity trek with the breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!
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