A woman has told how she started planning her own funeral after discovering her "migraines" were actually caused by a brain tumour.
Beth Parker had painful headaches for years but claims she was dismissed by doctors and told "it was just migraines". After multiple seizures, the 27-year-old was diagnosed with low-grade haemangioblastoma in her brain stem.
After undergoing life-threatening surgery to remove the brain tumour in February this year, Beth now wants to raise awareness of the disease which nearly killed her.
Beth, from Halewood, told the Liverpool Echo : “For months, I’d been telling my doctor that I had terrible migraines and pressure in the back of my head, which was getting worse, but I just kept being given pain killers.
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