A personal trainer has been given 18 months to live after an alleged 'gym injury' turned out to be cancer in his spine. 
Mark Potter, 47, from Chingford in Essex, started feeling a numbness in his calves at the start of the year.
But the former champion boxer — who was squatting 200kg at the time — put it down to a pinched nerve from training too hard and shrugged it off.
When the numbness started spreading up his leg, however, the father went to see his GP and was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer.
Doctors told him it had also spread to his spine, with tumours there compressing nerves leading to the loss of feeling in his legs. 
The boxing referee is now receiving chemotherapy once a fortnight to treat the cancer, and has switched his diet not to include any sugar and only a little meat. 
His family is 'hopeful' the treatment will work, with wife Hannah, 45, who is also a personal trainer saying: 'We're staying positive, and we still think he can beat this.'
Family friend Adrian Finlay has set up a page to replace lost wages and allow the couple to spend more time together.

It has so far raised ?18,800.










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