Mum-to-be told she is dying after waking up not being able to feel her toes
dailystar.co.ukpregnancy term when told she had an incurable brain tumour.Laura Elizabeth Mahon was 20 weeks pregnant when doctors delivered the cataclysmic news.She first noticed something was not quite right when she couldn’t move her toes after waking up, reports the Liverpool Echo.The 29-year-old said: “I didn’t think too much about it, after all I was pregnant and was feeling tired.
But things got worse and I could no longer move my right leg and was struggling to walk. Over the following week, I was unable to feel much of my right leg.”Laura’s GP believed her baby was pressing against a nerve and sent her to the Walton Centre for an MRI scan of her back.
But when the results came back clear she was sent for another scan on her brain.Laura said: “I was told the news that I had a brain tumour.
They told me it had more than likely been there for years and years, and had now started growing.“It was such a shock, I’m only 29 and didn’t think something like this could happen to me.”Laura was told that this was a very unique case and they wanted to monitor her before deciding what to do.
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