A mum who lost her father to suicide and was diagnosed with a brain tumour within the space of six months, having seizures up to three times a month, has taught her 10-year-old son how to call 999 and says she’s “only still alive now for (her) kids’ sake”.
Kerry Warburton, 35, who lives with her partner, Craig Kirkham, 36, their son, Ethan, 10, and their daughter, Ellana, 10 months, landed her dream job as a teaching assistant in December 2019, but in April 2020 she began having seizures where her eyes would turn “completely white” and she could no longer work. On top of this, in July 2020 Kerry’s dad died by suicide, and in January 2021 doctors found a tumour in her brain, which was causing her seizures.
One month later, doctors tried to remove her tumour by performing an open craniotomy, which made her lose her speech, and while in hospital she contracted Covid and was quarantined for 12 days. Her partner Craig thought she was on “death’s door” and doctors were “seconds away” from turning off her life support, but she recovered.
