Scots dad with brain tumour forced to wear noise-cancelling headphones around young daughter

dailyrecord.co.uk:

He has asthma-like symptoms, struggles with walking and, when playing with his two-year-old little girl, has to wear ear defenders to block his hyper-sensitivity to movement and sound.

Yet, doting dad-of-one, Jerome van Leeuwen, knows it’s all in his head – because he is, and has been since a toddler, living with a brain tumour.Jerome was his daughter’s age when he was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumour – the most common type of brain and spinal cord tumour in children.

Although surgeons were convinced they had completely removed the tumour, Jerome – who is now aged 42 – had regular scans until he was 15 years old.But then, in 2012, he began complaining of migraines.

Mindful of his brain tumour history, his doctor referred him for a scan, which revealed the unthinkable – he had a walnut-sized brain tumour.It, too, was a pilocytic astrocytoma, meaning that Jerome and his loving family had to wrestle with the devastating news that his brain tumour had returned.