‘They told me I had a brain tumour I was absolutely terrified’ [Video]

I GOT THE phone call on June 2nd 2020. I remember it so well. I was sitting at my kitchen table, laptop open, trying to work with my little girl, who was only one year, attempting to stand at the table leg. I answered a private number and knew straight away that it was from the GP.

She said that they had found something called a meningioma and that, typically, you can have them for years and not know. She was going to refer me to a specialist and send me some details on email. When the email came through, it featured information from Cancer Research UK and that’s when the panic set in. I started Googling and realised that it was a brain tumour.

A few weeks’ earlier, I had been experiencing headaches and something just made me go to see my GP. I don’t know what it was. …