In February 2019, Ruby Walvin started feeling tired.
The 19-year-old’s legs ached and his skin itched.
After I started studying song composition at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), there were more parties than usual.
Walvin was sure it was the new student life that made her feel completely exhausted.
But, when she started losing her appetite and losing weight, she decided to call the doctor.
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– Just anemia
Before she could go to her scheduled doctor’s appointment, she collapsed on her way home from a friend’s concert.
Walvin went straight to the emergency room, where doctors concluded she was just anemic, writes the Jam Press news agency.
Walvin says an emergency room nurse noticed he was short of breath, which he says The Pocket Doctor it can be a symptom of leukemia.
The nurse pushed for blood sampling from Ruby Walvin.
He may have saved the latter’s life.
SHOW MUSCLES: Ruby Walvin imagined fighting the biggest battle of her life in the hospital. Photo: Jam Press
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It proliferates freely
It wasn’t the parties and the alcohol that made Ruby Walvin feel like her.
– They did all kinds of tests in the ER. I called my parents to let them know. When I said things like “low white blood cell count” and “bone marrow biopsy”, they put two and two together. They have medical experience and knew what it was before me, she says.
Ruby Walvin’s parents rushed to the ER.
– They arrived as fast as possible. They hadn’t seen me for a couple of weeks and were completely shocked to see how pale I was, she says.
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His worst fears have been confirmed
The 23-year-old was admitted to the emergency room and four days later had confirmation of her worst fears:
He had acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
This is an aggressive form of blood cancer in which a specific type of white blood cell, lymphocytes, multiplies unhindered.
According to The Pocket Doctor This is the most common form of leukemia that children have, but adults can also get sick.
Fear for life
Ruby was terrified.
– As soon as I heard the word leukemia, my heart sank. I had heard of it before and knew it was not good. I was terrified that this would kill me. My whole life has been devoured by cancer, she says.
It was difficult for the 19-year-old to accept everything.
– I was scared, but I also wondered a little if it was true. My whole life has changed overnight.
TOUGH: Ruby Walvin takes a selfie in the hospital in October 2019. Photo: Jam Press
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Shot after shot
Walvin was transferred to a women’s cancer ward, where she ended up in a room with someone who was vomiting from cancer treatment.
After that, it went through all of a sudden.
Over the next two years, Ruby had to undergo several courses of chemotherapy.
Due to the intensive treatment, he had a number of infections, including an arm that eventually had to be operated on.
– I was quite depressed during the treatment. I was really tired of suffering, as well as being sick and weak. I was not in control of my life and I stopped doing the things I loved, like writing songs and singing.
WITHOUT POWER: Ruby Walvin in her mother’s arms during harsh treatment in July 2019. Photo: Jam Press
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In isolation
Since his immune system was at its lowest throughout the chemotherapy, he could not socialize with friends.
Doctors feared this could lead to more infections.
– It was a very lonely time, he says.
CELEBRATION: Ruby Walvin sipped cava with family and friends after being declared cancer free. Photo: Jam Press
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– Absolutely amazing
After three intense courses of chemotherapy, she was declared cancer-free in May 2019.
For the next two years she continued preventive chemotherapy and in July 2021 she completely finished the treatment.
– It was absolutely fantastic to be finished, but also a little scary. It was this life here that I had lived for two and a half years, he says.
The first months after the end of the treatment were challenging.
– I had a kind of “cytotoxic hangover” in which for a few months I had a headache and felt bad as the chemotherapy left my body.
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Back to life
Slowly but surely, Ruby Walvin began to feel better and better.
– I started to take back control of my life and I was ready to have fun, she says.
Now most things are the same as before.
– I feel good and have a very active lifestyle with university, work and concerts. I love it.
Walvin is now 23 and will start his third year at LIPA.
– Everything looks much better now, now that I know where I was two years ago, he says.
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