A woman who thought her seizures were due to stress discovered she had a tennis-ball-sized brain tumour squashing her brain. Helen Green, 58, started experiencing seizures and assumed they were down to the stress of the pandemic.
The mum-of-two had a phone consultation with her doctor - who referred her for an MRI scan. Just hours after her scan, Helen was told she had a 6cm tumour growing on the left temporal lobe of her brain.
Doctors were baffled Helen was still walking and talking - due to the size and placement of her tumour - which would usually see patients unable to speak and struggling with long-term memory problems. After her diagnosis, she underwent a four-hour operation during which surgeons successfully removed the tumour.
