<div><p>When Kayleigh Chapman's 5-year-old daughter Lily-Mae woke up with a cough one morning, she knew right away that it wasn't just a regular cold. She says that Lily-Mae "looked a bit off," and there was a strange-looking bruise or rash on her skin. But when Chapman took her daughter to the local clinic, the nurse who examined her daughter didn't see things the same way.</p><p>The 29-year-old mother from the UK said she was made to feel "like a paranoid mum, who was over-reacting but I knew there was something wrong with my daughter."</p><p>A nurse-practitioner sent Lily-Mae home, saying that she probably just had a virus, but just days later Chapman found out it was much worse.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="/content/images/2017/05/Rash.jpg" srcset="/content/images/2017/05/Rash_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Chapman with Lily-Mae and her rash.</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>Lily-Mae's rash got worse and worse, and Chapman says her "<a href="/this-mothers-intuition-and-loving-touch-brought-her-baby-back-to-life-2098662886/" target="_blank">mother's intuition</a>" started sounding the alarm.</p><p>She took Lily-Mae back to the clinic, but asked to see a doctor this time. He could tell right away something was wrong with the little girl, and sent her to a nearby hospital for blood tests.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="/content/images/2017/05/Kiss.JPG" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>That's where Chapman got the bad news.</p><p><strong>Click the next page to find out why this mom is so upset!</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Less than 2 hours after arriving at the hospital, Chapman was told that her daughter had acute lymphoblastic <a href="/they-planned-her-funeral-but-then-she-started-fighting-even-harder/" target="_blank">leukaemia</a>. The disease is a rare form of the <a href="/actor-forms-unbreakable-bond-with-sick-89-year-old-neighbor-vows-to-ta-2216448116/" target="_blank">cancer</a>, related to cells in the patient's bone marrow. It's very rare in children, which explains why nobody expected Lily-Mae to have it.</p><p>But Chapman is upset by how she and her daughter were treated, and by the fact that nobody spotted the disease sooner.</p><p>"She was displaying the symptoms but they weren't spotted," she told <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4552264/Mother-blasts-surgery-nurse-diagnosis-blunder.html" target="_blank">the Daily Mail</a>.</p><p>"It has made me angry but we're the position that we're in and we have to move on."</p><div><figure><amp-img src="/content/images/2017/05/Hospital.JPG" srcset="/content/images/2017/05/Hospital_GH_content_550px.JPG 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>Chapman says her daughter can expect 2 years worth of chemo treatments, and she also has to take steroids that are making her moody.</p><p>"We are devastated but we've got to stay strong for her," she says. </p><p>"What I want to do is raise awareness of how fast it can all happen."</p><div><figure><amp-img src="/content/images/2017/05/2shot.JPG" srcset="/content/images/2017/05/2shot_GH_content_550px.JPG 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>It's not the first time some very small symptoms <a href="/mother-of-two-thought-she-had-a-rash-turns-out-it-was-cancer/" target="_blank">turned out to be cancer</a>, but hopefully this mom's case will inspire more moms to take their intuition seriously.</p><p><strong>Share this post so other mothers will see her message!</strong></p><p>[H/T: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4552264/Mother-blasts-surgery-nurse-diagnosis-blunder.html" target="_blank">The Daily Mail</a>]</p></div>
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