For ten long years, Cheryl Murray lived with a painful, growing lump on her foot — a secret she hid even from the man she loved.
It wasn’t until she moved in with her partner David that the truth, and the lump, could no longer be hidden. What she thought was a minor issue turned out to be something much more terrifying: cancer.
The secret she couldn’t hide forever
Cheryl, from Glasgow in Scotland, first noticed the lump on her foot when she was just 15 years old. It was uncomfortable, but not alarming. A doctor initially brushed it off and suggested physiotherapy. After a slip and fall, they believed she may have torn a ligament.
But over the next decade, the lump didn’t go away—it grew. And every time she accidentally bumped it, the pain was sharp and unbearable. Eventually, it swelled to the size of a golf ball.
