When Claire Shipp began experiencing numbness and tingling in her fingers, doctors initially assumed she had carpal tunnel syndrome. But soon after, her face went numb too. Then she suffered two seizures.
Claire began experiencing numbness in her fingers, but assumed it was carpal tunnel syndrome
‘My life was completely normal apart from my hand doing weird things. It was my middle finger on my left hand. One doctor suggested this could be a migraine, but days later she had a seizure, followed by another on January 3, and decided to call 999. ‘I had to sit in a corridor for the next four hours as they didn’t have a bed for me because I needed an MRI.‘Then told me they’d found a tumour and it might be malignant.’Claire was referred to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London who confirmed the diagnosis of a grade four astrocytoma – a cancerous brain growth that can also affect the spine.Her first thought was her nine-year-old son, and before the surgery she wrote him a long letter in case she didn’t make it.
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