A worried mum repeatedly dismissed as a “nervous first-time' parent when she took her sick infant son to GPs was later told he had a dangerous brain tumour. Tessa Crane, 29, had serious concerns about son Oscar's health when he was about seven months old and took him to doctors 18 times in a single month.
However, her concerns were dismissed as being those of a first-time mum and she was even prescribed anti-anxiety medication. Finally, after being turned away another time, desperate single mum Tessa took Oscar to her local A&E department.
Within 30 minutes Oscar was blue-lighted to hospital after being diagnosed with a low-grade but potentially life-threatening brain tumour in April, 2018. Doctors diagnosed him as having a grade 2 choroid plexus papilloma and a build-up of excess brain fluid, known as hydrocephalus at just eight months old.
