'I thought my stomach was just bloated at 16, but doctors said I was days away from death'

ok.co.uk:

Teenager Alex Arkell's trip to the doctor for a bloated and painful stomach led to a harrowing discovery that took everyone by surprise.

Alex from Stirling, who was just 16 years old at the time, was on a family getaway when she first felt off-colour, and after returning home, made a beeline for the GP.

Blood tests were taken, and she was sent to the hospital for an ultrasound. By this point, Alex had lost peripheral vision in her left eye and was told that her ovaries had grown by 13 cm.

Doctors unravelled the mystery; Alex was grappling with an ultra-rare brain tumour that affects just 20 people in the world, and she had been just a week away from death. "At just 16 years old, my life flashed before me.