A heartwarming account of a family celebration that turned into a life-altering moment when the father experienced strange symptoms.
This morning I got a message from my sister saying that it was two years ago tomorrow that we found out about the brain tumor. This day two years ago was the last day our family had together, clueless before the fabric of our lives changed. Two years and one week ago, my sister got married in a beautiful small ceremony with all our closest family. It was a freezing, blue sky day. My sister and her wife said their vows wearing white, with shaking hands, in front of both our families.
Our faces hurt from smiling. We lined up and took photos in beautiful frozen gardens and laughed while we awkwardly placed two new families so eagerly beside each other. We complained of being cold as we walked to the pub. We held hands and you could see our breath in the air. My phone battery died. We had no idea what was just around the corner. As we arrived at the restaurant Dad closed the door on my granny’s hand. She was ok. It wasn’t something we worried too much about, these things happen. Just a small bruise. We raised glasses and made jokes. Dad made a speech, something that he was always excellent at. He leant over the brides and made everyone laugh. We were lit by candlelight and gifts were exchanged between families. We sat to eat and Dad over-poured water into a glass. It spilled onto the table. I swotted it up with napkins. It was an odd moment, and I looked at him. He couldn’t seem to understand where the top of the glass was. A week later, when we were at home, there were more strangeness. Dad was bumping into things and had a vacant look on his face. I called an ambulance. They sent him home from A&E after a scan. He had had a mini-stroke, but he was himself again. These things happen, we will keep an eye on it, we made a doctor’s appointment for the following week. A doctor’s appointment was followed by an eye appointment. He had lost nearly all of his peripheral vision. Odd. Another episode. Another scan. It was then that everything changed
FAMILY HEALTH TURNINGPOINT SYMPTOMS MEDICALDIAGNOSIS
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