Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Woman who shouted in sleep due to 'nightmares' diagnosed with brain tumour
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman was stunned to learn the cause of her "nightmares" that left her waking up exhausted. For over a year Catherine Cassidy, 32, had nightmare-like episodes as she began to fell asleep or shortly before she woke up.
However, she was oblivious until her partner Jim told her that she was shouting out and shaking in her sleep, Liverpool Echo writes.Catherine put the night terrors down to work related stress or fatigue for months until her family convinced her otherwise.Her mum pleaded with her to see a GP, who diagnosed her with epilepsy, prescribed tablets and kept increasing the dose.But Catherine's night-time seizures become more frequent, leading the GP to send her for an MRI that uncovered a type of brain tumour called an Anaplastic Astrocytoma that can cause memory problems.Catherine said: "We were all working from home, so I was actually thankfully with my partner at home and he was sat next to me when I got the call."When my GP said to me, 'I've just looked at your MRI, I'm so sorry, you've actually got a brain tumour', I just passed the phone to Jim."The worst part for me was thinking, 'I have to tell my parents this, and I have to tell them over Facetime because of lockdown'."She said it was "soul destroying" seeing tears in her parents' eyes as she told them, without even a hug, that their youngest child had a brain tumour.Catherine said: "It's hard because you get to a point where you think, 'I want to take care of my parents and I want to help them however I can'.
I enjoyed that aspect."When it got to the point where I couldn't, it was soul destroying."I felt like I was becoming a young child again, like a toddler who's running around all the time and needs your attention so it doesn't break something,
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