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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Patrick Edrich

Pregnant mum woke up and couldn't move her toes before devastating diagnosis

A mum diagnosed with a deadly brain tumour knew something was wrong when she woke up and couldn't move her toes.

Laura Mahon was diagnosed with a fast-growing brain cancer when she was 20 weeks pregnant. Laura, from St Helens, said she first realised something was wrong in September 2021 when she woke up and couldn't move her toes.

But the 30-year-old said at first she thought it was her baby pressing against a nerve so was sent to The Walton Centre for an MRI scan of her back. After it came back clear Laura was sent for another MRI scan on her brain.

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