My leukemia was picked up during a random blood test

Last October, I decided to get my mum a health and wellbeing MOT. She’s 85 and I wanted to check that everything was as it should be. 

It was just a precautionary measure and I decided that I would have one done at the same time. 

I’d been feeling tired for a couple of months prior to this and thought there would be no harm in checking if I might be deficient in something. I didn’t know at the time that those tests would save my…