Posted on 03/28/2024 4:20:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Medics think the tumour could have been growing for as long as 30 years
A mum says she's "lucky" after a bout of food poisoning led to a brain tumour diagnosis. Theresa Hardwick, 58, was holidaying in Saint Brieuc, Brittany, France, when she began vomiting and talking "nonsense".
She was rushed to Central Hospitalier de Saint Brieuc and diagnosed with an egg-size low-grade brain tumour - which may have been growing for 30 years. Doctors had to perform a seven-hour operation to remove the tumour after she had a 90-minute seizure. They were able to remove it all and she has been stable ever since.
Mum-of-two Theresa, from Petersfield, Hampshire, said: "Had I never been sick, my tumour might still be undiscovered. The doctors think my brain went into spasm from the effects of the food poisoning."
Theresa had been suffering from food poisoning caused by mussels before she was admitted to hospital and had been violently vomiting for 24 hours. But on July 4, 2019, her husband, Paul, 56, a retiree, noticed she wasn't making any sense while talking and quickly became unresponsive.
He called an ambulance, which rushed her to a hospital in Brittany for further examinations - before she was transferred to St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, back in the UK. But she had a 90-minute seizure at Chichester, which revealed a low-grade meningeal tumour - which is non-cancerous.
Theresa said: "There were no warning signs before I was sick with food poisoning. I had been vomiting for hours non-stop and was extremely dehydrated when I had the seizure."
Doctors removed the tumour in surgery on August 21, 2019, in a seven-hour operation that took place at Spire Hospital, Southampton. Theresa is now stable - but needs to have annual scans to ensure the tumour doesn't return.
Her daughter, Anna, 25, a finance assistant, plans to climb 5,859m up Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Brain Tumour research.
Theresa said: "I feel lucky that my tumour was operable and I'm now monitored with regular brain scans. However, I understand there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to brain tumours."
More information on Brain Tumour Research can be found on its website.
Amazing that they could remove a tumor of that size in the brain, and she is now stable. I wonder if there will be long-term rehabilitation though.
That’s why I pray over my food. Especially of someone has prepared it.
She’s fortunate they didn’t just euthanize her.
how stupid
Her daughter, Anna, 25, a finance assistant, plans to climb 5,859m up Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Brain Tumour research.
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Sounds like daughter is grifting with donations money. How is her hike up Mountain KJ going to aid research?
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Not only that, but a brain tumour is probably what caused her to lose consciousness and talk in babbly-grabble.
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these people.
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