Overview
- Her symptoms began in January 2025 with dry eyes and progressed to paranoia, double vision, memory lapses and loss of bladder control, which she first blamed on stress.
- After an optician urgent referral, doctors performed emergency surgery for hydrocephalus and discovered a large, centrally located brain tumour within hours.
- In September 2025 surgeons created a hole to allow natural drainage because the tumour’s position made full removal too risky.
- In October 2025 clinicians told her the tumour had mutated and was terminal, saying chemotherapy would not help and radiotherapy might only slow progression.
- She married her partner in January 2026, has stopped work to focus on quality of life using her pension, and recent scans reported by her show the tumour has begun to shrink while the overall prognosis remains grave and uncertain.