A family thought their young daughter may have had flu but it turned out she had a rare form of cancer. Indeg Roberts, seven, who lives with her family on the Llŷn Penninsula in Gwynedd, had been vomiting on-and-off for months and then dramatically started losing weight before doctors discovered she had a brain tumour in November 2020.
Mum Ceri says although she was concerned about her daughter's symptoms, she never thought a brain tumour would turn out to be the cause, North Wales Live reports. Ceri said: “She had been vomiting on-and-off for a while but we just thought it was the flu at first, we had spoken to the doctors over the phone and they thought it could be lots of different things, like stomach problems, or anxiety because of the pandemic.
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