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An Iowa woman was shocked to find out that small red dots that appeared on her arm and legs were signs of a highly dangerous form of blood cancer.

Helaina Hillyard, 20, of Mediapolis, Iowa, noticed small, freckle like, red dots appear around her arms and legs in November 2021, slowly growing and spreading within a matter of hours.

She at first believed that it was a small sports injury, and went to the hospital to get it checked out.

While there, she received the shock of her life, discovering that she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a blood cancer that kills around a third of people who suffer from it.

Helaina Hillyard (pictured), 20, suddenly had red dots appear on her arms and legs last November

While Hillyard (pictured) did not think much of it at first, but went to urgent care, and later an emergency room, after being told to go by her sister

Helaina Hillyard (pictured), 20, suddenly had red dots appear on her arms and legs last November. While she did not think much of it at first, but went to urgent care, and later an emergency room, after being told to go by her sister

'I was in disbelief,' Hillyard wrote in a first-person report for Newsweek, where she described her ordeal in great detail.

'In the ER, they had told me that if I had waited much longer to go to the doctor I could have had a brain bleed and died.'

Hillyard, who was described as a 'once-in-a-lifetime athlete' by The Hawk Eye for her incredible play in both volleyball and basketball as a high schooler, said that she had felt fatigued for weeks leading up to the dots appearing, but had chalked it up to a poor sleep schedule.

He sister and brother-in-law were visiting to watch her play when she first noticed the bumps. While she did not think much of them, her sister was extremely concerned.

Early the next morning,

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