A dad's tumour grew outside his skull giving him 14 months longer to live - and time to have a baby. Mike Hawthorn was diagnosed with a grade two meningioma aged 26 following a routine eye test.
After his skull failed to fuse together properly from surgery in April 2021 part of the tumour even seeped out through a crack in the bone. It started growing on the outside of his skull - which actually relieved the pressure on his brain giving him living 14 months more than expected.
During that 14 months his wife fell pregnant and they had a baby born on March 6, 2022. The giant tumour eventually put too much pressure on his brain and Mike died in July 2022 aged just 33.
