Mum's heartbreaking warning before dying of leukaemia on Christmas Day
A young mum has made a heartbreaking final Facebook post before dying on Christmas Day - a month after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
On November 27, Kirsten Hawksey was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia and told she would be started on chemotherapy at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital .
The 23-year-old from Merseyside, England made a Facebook post on December 3, thanking her loved ones for the support and urging friends to "not ignore any symptom".
"This is by all means not a cry for sympathy because that's not like me as you will be aware haha, but more so awareness," she wrote.
"I never go to the doctors, so thank god for everyone pushing me to go over some unexplained bruising.
"I literally couldn't thank all my family, friends and work colleagues for all their support this last week. If anything I feel more lucky than unlucky."
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Ms Hawksey, mother of 15-month-old daughter Penelope, died three weeks later, on Christmas Day, the Liverpool Echo reported.
Doctors said she had a bleed to the brain.
Her father Neil said she Googled her symptoms after finding unexplained bruising on her legs and the results said leukaemia.
"It was just laughed off, because she wasn’t sick,” he said.
Neil said even after the serious diagnosis, his daughter remained positive and "wasn't the type to complain."
"She would never have given up fighting because of her daughter - she idolised her and completely loved her to bits," he said.
