Woman given three weeks to live due to inoperable brain tumour - she put the only symptom down to being 'overworked'

A pistillate was diagnosed with 4 deadly encephalon tumours aft suffering pins and needles — which she enactment down to her physically demanding job.

Julie Swallow, 56, from Cambridgeshire, began suffering the irritating sensation successful her close limb successful 2021, and assumed she'd trapped a nervus from lasting connected her feet each day.

One morning, erstwhile retired walking her dog, the tingles became truthful aggravated she struggled to determination her legs.    

'I genuinely thought that going to A&E was ridiculous, but my person said I should telephone the doctor,' said Ms Swallow, a canine hydrotherapist.

An advisor astatine the NHS exigency work 111 was alarmed by her grounds and told her to spell consecutive to her section A&E at Kings Lynn Hospital. 

Subsequent scans revealed 2 inoperable encephalon tumours successful the mediate of her brain.

'After finishing the scans, I was taken to the waiting room, and a caregiver told maine that they’re keeping maine there.

'A doc told maine that I astir apt person got astir 3 weeks to live, and to archer my hubby and family.'   

Ms Swallow had precocious survived breast cancer, and doctors told her the tumours successful her encephalon were metastatic — meaning they'd apt dispersed from determination other successful her body, perchance the breast. 

Devastatingly, doctors told her chemotherapy would not enactment owed to the benignant of tumour.

Instead, she was prescribed a attraction of monthly cause injections to support the growths nether control, with regular monitorig via CT and MRI scans.

A small portion later, a 3rd tumour was discovered, which doctors blasted with radiotherapy.

And successful March 2024, a 4th tumour was discovered. 

Doctors instantly performed country to region it, leaving Ms Swallow with debilitating complications.

'When I came circular from [the operation], I couldn't locomotion precise well, and I person truly struggled with my mobility since then.' 

Despite the challenges, she remains affirmative and appreciates the small moments successful life.

'Because I person lived longer than anticipated, and I americium inactive present going strong, I admit the small days,' she said.

'I instrumentality much clip than astir radical to admit the small stuff, a substance connection from a friend, idiosyncratic visiting, oregon the blossom connected the trees.

'There is thing bully successful each day, and I conscionable look for that.

'I person 2 choices, I tin get engaged living, oregon I tin get engaged dying — I americium going to beryllium engaged nary substance what.

'It volition drawback up with maine eventually, but successful the meantime, I instrumentality each time arsenic it comes.' 

Cameron Miller, Director of External Affairs and Strategy astatine The Brain Tumour Charity, said the informing signs of the deadly crab alteration by property group, tumour benignant and wherever successful the encephalon a tumour is located. 

'But we would promote anyone who is disquieted astir a grounds that’s antithetic for them, peculiarly if it is persistent oregon if they acquisition a operation of symptoms, to talk to their doctor,' helium said.

'Anyone acrophobic tin besides talk to our Support Team connected 0808 800 0004 oregon find retired much astir the imaginable signs and symptoms astatine bettersafethantumour.com.'