A nurse had a leg amputated to save her life after putting the pain of a tumour down to cramps from long hours on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sette Buenaventura, 26, was putting in 12-hour shifts when she noticed a throbbing in her right calf in April. She shrugged it off until she struggled to walk – and tests then revealed a sarcoma, which within weeks doubled in size to that of a golf ball.
Sette, also a part-time model, was devastated to hear the only way to save her was to amputate from the top of her knee. She said: “I was so upset, I like to look after myself and try to be healthy, I work in healthcare and never expected this to happen.