A Scots mum who thought her ten-year-old was simply being "clumsy" was shocked to find she had a cancerous tumour in her mind.
Jackie Nelson, 35, from Kilwinning, mentioned she wasn't overly apprehensive about daughter Ava her daughter began complaining about complications and mentioned she was feeling always sick and dizzy. Jackie took Ava to a GP, who brushed her sickness off as a viral an infection, telling the pair it could quickly go away.
After three extra visits to the GP, Ava was lastly referred to the kids's evaluation ward at Cross Home Hospita l close to Kilmarnock. Final month, she was identified with a excessive grade glioblastoma mind tumour after an MRI scan.
Jackie, a carer from Kilwinning, mentioned: "It appeared she was simply being clumsy at dwelling, till she began to complain about feeling sick and dizzy on a regular basis. One thing in my coronary heart knew she wasn't proper, and if I would have listened to the docs initially Ava would not nonetheless be with us."
Following her analysis, Ava was taken straight to the Queen Elizabeth College Hospital in Glasgow in an ambulance and booked in for mind surgical procedure the very subsequent morning. Surgeons needed to relieve the stress which was constructing because of the tumour earlier than it broken her mind.
The operation went properly, and she or he was instantly referred for her first rounds of chemo and every day radiotherapy. She has been staying at Marion Home, free lodging run by charity Younger Lives vs Most cancers, reverse the hospital for the previous seven weeks, together with her mum.
Ava's radiotherapy will conclude on August 5, when docs will evaluation her progress - and Jackie is praying it is going to be excellent news.
Jackie, a mum-of-three mentioned: "The final two months have been a whirlwind and Ava has been so courageous by means of all of it. She's having every day radio remedy and taking chemo tablets to try to shrink the tumour.
"We should always learn the way her radiotherapy has affected the tumour within the subsequent month and we're all praying it is going to be excellent news. Ava is probably the most loving, optimistic lady and an incredible daughter and I could not be prouder of her."
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