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Sean McPolin

Dying dad with months left to live manages to see the birth of his son

A young father who was diagnosed with an eye tumour miraculously lived long enough to see his son born.

After a failed surgery for a grade two meningioma, Mike Hawthorn was given an extra 14 months to live after the tumour had leaked out onto his skull and relieved pressure from his brain.

In those months his wife Emily, 32, fell pregnant and the pair's son Edison was born in April 2021, WalesOnline reports.

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