'We had only just started telling people about the baby... then we had to say her dad has an incurable disease'

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Neil Taylor had only been married for months. He and his new wife, Alex, were excitedly expecting their daughter. But then came sudden seizures that left Neil, and his wife, baffled.

Neil was sent for tests to check if he had epilepsy or a sleeping disorder, then the worst happened. Neil was told that, at just 32, he had an aggressive, incurable brain tumour. “I was 13 weeks pregnant, and we had only just started telling people about the baby, now we had to break the devastating news about Neil’s diagnosis," explained Alex. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Neil Taylor, now 38, and wife Alex, from Middleton, discovered that they were expecting Annabelle, now aged five, a few months after they married in June 2016.

But three months later, in February 2017, months before his daughter was born on 30 August, Neil learnt that he had a grade three astrocytoma brain tumour.

It was nearing Christmas 2016 when Neil had a couple of seizures in the night and was referred to a neurologist for a scan to find out if he had a sleeping disorder or epilepsy.