Izaac Roberts has spent the last three years living with the devastating effects of his grade 2 brain tumour - enduring debilitating seizures, loss of speech and numbness down one side of his body.
At the beginning of this year, the 18-year-old became the youngest patient to ever brave an awake craniotomy at Royal Stoke Hospital, with the aim of ultimately curing his symptoms and saving his life.
But two hours into the high-risk brain surgery, Izaac suddenly suffered a seizure and neurosurgeon Mr Chan was left with a dilemma - continue operating and risk life-long complications or wait for it to pass?
