Woman in intensive care after becoming ill on holiday with boyfriend and undergoing brain surgery

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A young woman was rushed to hospital for brain surgery as she enjoyed a holiday to Spain with her boyfriend. Millie Jackson faces months in hospital after jetting off to Malaga with her boyfriend Cameron West at the beginning of June.Millie who was 19 when she started the holiday, but has since turned 20, was due to undergo surgery to remove a tumour from her brain in July - but first, was keen to enjoy a break away with her boyfriend, Cameron after being told she was fit to fly, reports WalesOnline.The nursery worker from Ystrad Rhondda lives with a rare genetic condition called von Hippel-Lindau disease which causes benign cysts and tumours to grow in parts of the body.The condition which runs in her family - with Millie's mum and uncle also living with the condition - is an inherited disorder characterized by the formation of tumours and fluid-filled sacs (cysts) in many different parts of the body.Millie was diagnosed with the condition at the age of six and as a result, has routine MRIs and doctors in Wales were keen to remove one tumour from her brain this summer as it had grown in size.Millie became extremely unwell on June 13 and was rushed to hospital.Describing what happened Millie's mum, Suzy Jackson, 42, said: "They've done her scans and they said she's not safe to fly because she was dizzy, being sick, she couldn't walk.

She was really, really ill with it. So they've done the emergency brain surgery to remove the tumour on the cerebellum."The cerebellum is the part of the brain that controls motor movement and balance control.Suzy, who is originally from Newcastle but has lived in the Rhondda for the last 12 years, continued: "She woke up all right.