Nieve Mottram thought something 'wasn't right'12:27, 05 Jul 2026A woman’s life has been “put on hold” after a "heartbreaking" diagnosis. Nieve Mottram, 20, from Childwall, saw lumps appear on her neck in June of last year.‌Nieve’s fears were eased when doctors told her it was something to do with her “white blood cells”, which defend your body against infections and viruses. But from November, a lump appeared under Nieve’s arm too, and by April 1 it had grown. This is when Neive and her mum Heidi Mottram, 54, felt something more worrying was going on.‌Nieve told the ECHO: ”I just thought it was a lump because we'd gone in about the ones on my neck, and it was just like, ‘oh, it's just your white blood cells, we don't know why they're doing that.'‌“And then the one under my arm appeared, an