A mum whose son died just 11 days after being diagnosed with a brain tumour is campaigning to help parents to recognise the symptoms of the illness.
Anna Hindle’s son, Tim, was sent for an MRI scan in 2018 after he'd been seriously unwell with debilitating headaches and episodes of vomiting.
Shortly after turning 13 in May that year, Tim had begun to suffer from severe headaches, which saw him go from being his normal fun-loving self one day to being unable to get out of bed the next.
It was initially diagnosed as teenage migraine, but the medication he was prescribed made no difference to his condition. “He had been to Windermere and we thought maybe he had picked up something in the water.
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