A mum who dismissed her son's clumsiness as him just being a 'gangly teenager' going through a growth spurt was stunned to discover it was actually a giant brain tumour. Samantha Halket said that her son Thomas Halket, 16, started suffering from tiredness, headaches and sickness last month, which she just thought was from GCSE exam stress, too much screen time and not getting enough sleep.
The 39-year-old caught him zig-zagging across the road 'like a snake', and as he's notoriously clumsy and recently shot up, assumed it was down to his new lanky 6ft 1in frame. But as his headaches got worse, the mum-of-two booked an eye test at Specsavers who referred him to the emergency eye clinic.
After various tests, the 39-year-old received the 'terrifying' news that her youngest son had a 5cm by 6cm grade one brain tumour, a pilocytic astrocytoma, that was surrounded by a cyst. Two days later he had it removed but a slither was left behind as fully extracting it was likely to cause more problems, and he was eventually discharged a fortnight ago.
