Due to her delayed diagnosis, she said her cancer had spread and she also had blood clots in her lungs.
“Not one doctor took me seriously,” she continued. “Not one doctor did the scans or blood tests I begged for whilst crying on the floor in agony. Instead, they dismissed me. They gaslit me, told me it was nothing, made me feel like I was overreacting. They refused to scan me. They refused to investigate. They REFUSED to listen.”
After publicly sharing her cancer battle, O’Connor explained that she had suffered a miscarriage just before her diagnosis. However, she still chose to stay positive.
“I’ve been pregnant with a beautiful baby, suffered a miscarriage, then got diagnosed with ‘incurable’ cancer,” she wrote on Instagram February 18 in honor of her 25th birthday. “But I still feel on top of the world!”
One such highlight was her wedding less than two weeks before her passing. O’Connor shared that she had married her longtime boyfriend Adriano Cardinali on May 9, posting photos of the nuptials on Instagram.
As she put it in the caption, “I married the love of my life.”