He has asthma-like symptoms, struggles with walking and, when playing with his two-year-old little girl, has to wear ear defenders to block his hyper-sensitivity to movement and sound.
Yet, doting dad-of-one, Jerome van Leeuwen, knows it’s all in his head – because he is, and has been since a toddler, living with a brain tumour.
Jerome was his daughter’s age when he was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumour – the most common type of brain and spinal cord tumour in children.
