Brain scan exposes woman’s ‘stress’ symptom
When a British woman began experiencing seizures during the pandemic, she put them down to the extra stress she was feeling while navigating life through the global health crisis.
But a trip to her doctor revealed a much more serious reason for them.
Helen Green, from Walsall, near Birmingham, was sent for an MRI after suffering from the unexplained seizures. That’s when doctors discovered the 58-year-old had a 6cm tumour – around the size of a tennis ball – on the left temporal lobe of her brain.
“I went into hospital at 8.30am and at 3.30pm I was told I had a brain tumour,” Ms Green said.
“I thought it was a death sentence.”
The type of tumour doctors found normally leaves patients unable to speak, and can even affect their long-term memory at times.
However she was still able to talk and walk, with doctors explaining that the tumour’s large size and location meant the mass wasn’t affecting her bodily functions.
Tests later revealed it was a “low-grade meningioma”. Meningiomas are the most common brain tumours and can be either slow or fast-growing.
Most are benign, though around 10 per cent are cancerous according to Cancer Australia.
Ms Green had a four-hour surgery to remove the mass, as her 83-year-old mum, Sheila, waited anxiously.
During the surgery, doctors also found “three shadows” – lesions on the brain.
“I named the tumour duckie egg and the triplets as it was around the size of a duck egg,” Ms Green said.
“The doctors also found three shadows which is where the triplets came from.”
After the surgery, Ms Green began struggling to walk and had problems speaking – something she still deals with today.
“I couldn’t bring myself to tell people I had a brain tumour,” Ms Green said. “I couldn’t accept what it really was.”
Now, she has to get regular check-ups to make sure the tumour doesn’t return, and she described the whole ordeal as “overwhelming”.
But still, despite it all, she is trying to remain positive and count her blessings that she’s still alive.
“It was hard to come to terms with it, but a way for me to cope was to put a positive spin on it,” she said.
“To think that I had been living all those years and carrying it around with me – the outcome could have been different if I found it earlier.
“I am lucky to be here and grateful to wake up in the morning.”
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