EXCLUSIVE: A mum has been left heartbroken after her ‘perfect’ daughter was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer which she thought was a food allergy
THE mum of a five-year-old girl diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour initially thought she had a food allergy before receiving the devastating news., told how alarm bells rang when she noticed that her bubbly daughter Lucy was a lot more tired than usual.
Speaking about Lucy's first symptoms, Sarah said: “We live in an avenue where there are loads of kids, everybody's out playing.Sarah said this didn't really set off alarm bells as such but it did worry her. “It was unbelievable when they told, never did I ever expect to be told it was something so serious.”She continued: “They wanted to do all these tests and when they said they were keeping her in and they wanted to do an MRI scan, that’s when my heart started racing and I knew something was wrong.Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma is a brain tumor found in a part of the brain stem called the pons.
After learning that Lucy had an aggressive form of cancer, the youngster underwent emergency surgery to relieve the pressure on her brain and a shunt was inserted to drain the fluid.
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