For Denise Wingfield, it was difficult to believe that the funny whirring sound in her ear, that affected her sleep pattern, was actually a brain tumor growing inside her. The 55 year old woman was first diagnosed as having tinnitus, a health complication where you hear ringing noises in the head; she was referred to an ear, nose and throat specialist, Mirror reported.
"But following an MRI, doctors found an anomaly on her brain. A month later Denise underwent a nine hour awake craniotomy - and was diagnosed with grade 2 oligodendroglioma - a rare brain tumour," the media reported.