Teacher who was diagnosed with anxiety was actually bleeding to death from a tumour which BURST in her stomach

April Heath, 24, from Cambridge, went to her doctor suspecting she had picked up flu. But she was initially told it was a combination of anxiety and an ear infection. 


When she continued to feel unwell, she went to her boyfriend's doctor who admitted her to hospital with severe anaemia. She was eventually diagnosed with a rare type of tumour which had ruptured and was causing internal bleeding. She had emergency surgery (right) and tests later confirmed the tumour was benign. Miss Heath, (pictured inset, recovering in hospital with boyfriend Matt Hewitt) who has represented Great Britain playing flag football, is now fighting back to fitness. She said: 'It's strange to think I'm only one of only four people in the world to have had the tumour. Fortunately I feel fine now.'