Mum, 41, instructed she had months to reside following an sudden seizure

Jul 04, 2023 at 11:22 AM
Mum, 41, instructed she had months to reside following an sudden seizure

The sudden assault occurred in March, which required Lisa’s husband, Dean, to revive her.

Soon rushed to hospital, an MRI scan revealed Lisa had a big mind tumour – and alongside got here the devastating terminal prognosis.

Lisa’s mum, Rosemary, stated: “The day when they walked in and said it’s a brain tumour and she’s got six months was one of the worst days of my life.”

Surgeons accomplished a nine-hour operation to take away 90 % of the expansion in Lisa’s mind.

The biopsy revealed a grade three Astrocytoma, which requires chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Within per week, Lisa was despatched dwelling, however she quickly suffered from an enormous stroke that left the entire of her left facet paralysed.

Rosemary shared: “Dean rushed into hospital and rang me at 3am, saying they’d taken her to Yeovil Hospital.

“I stayed up all evening ready to listen to extra, after which I obtained a textual content at 11am the next morning saying I wanted to return to the hospital as she was getting worse.”

Rosemary added: “At that second, I assumed she was dying. I drove to Yeovil Hospital a bit like a maniac.

“Dean was stressed outside the hospital, and I thought she’d died. I cupped his head in my hands and said, ‘Tell me now, tell me what’s happening.’

“He instructed me she was getting worse, and he wanted to get some air as he was exhausted.”

Thankfully, Lisa survived, but “she’d misplaced her complete left facet”, but is now “recovering slowly”.

Lisa will soon begin radiotherapy and chemotherapy to shrink the remaining tumour in her brain.

“While they will’t treatment her, they’re optimistic they will management it,” said Rosemary.

“It’s so ingrained within the mind, what’s left will probably be monitored with MRI scans each three months to see if it grows, and additional operations will probably be doubtless.

“Hopefully, the seizure tablets will mean she will not have seizures. She could have five years, 10 years, or more. We do not know.”

Rosemary began a crowdfunding campaign to permit Lisa and Dean to take pleasure in a Cornish seashore vacation.

“The pair of them have never had a decent holiday,” stated Rosemary. “Dean has always worked so hard, and Lisa qualified as a dog groomer and worked hard.”

Because of the circumstances, neither of them have been capable of work, which implies “money is tough” in the mean time.

“It’s been months of hospitals, needles, nurses, doctors, surgeons. As fantastic as they’ve been, they need time to rest and be themselves,” stated Rosemary.