A nurse with a golf ball-sized brain tumour was told for months by her GP she was just "approaching the menopause" before finally sending her for scans.
When Anne Murdy was eventually diagnosed with a large meningioma tumour, close to her brain stem, she said her main worry was not seeing her teenage daughter grow up. "There were moments when I crumbled," the 55-year-old mum who works at Thornhill Community Hospital, near Dumfries, Scotland, told the Daily Record.
Anne is still awaiting her post-op scan results and is recovering at home after undergoing a 10-hour operation that left her with double vision, ataxia and facial numbness.
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