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A Scots woman who started coughing up blood after her brother died suddenly in his sleep has issued an urgent plea for people to listen to their bodies and "advocate" for themselves if they feel something isn't right. Rebecca Elsdon, 34, from Edinburgh had been fit and healthy until she came down with a series of coughs and colds in October 2023, which she dismissed as a seasonal bug. ‌

After discovering tiny specks of blood in her saliva, she went to the GP who quickly sent for a chest X-ray before Christmas 2023, but nothing worrying showed up and medics said she probably had small internal tears from coughing. In the New Year, though, Rebecca's condition worsened, reports the Mirror . ‌

She was struggling to eat and one evening when her energy was

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