A young mum faced unimaginable fear during her pregnancy when she discovered she couldn't 'curl' her toes – a sign of a harrowing diagnosis.
Laura Mahon of St Helens, Merseyside initially dismissed the symptoms as typical pregnancy issues. Recalling her ordeal, the 31-year-old said: "The doctors ran several other scans before finally getting to the brain scan I had been pushing for.
When the day of the scan came, I saw all the doctors suddenly rushing into the room, and that's when it hit me - something wasn't right."They told me I'd only be in the machine for 15 minutes, but an hour later, I was still lying there, waiting.
My heart was pounding."After the scan, they pulled me aside into a room and told me I had a brain tumour – a Glioma - and that I probably only had a year left to live.
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