on Sunday night I was taken to a&e with another ‘stroke’ the nurses was great and said they would look at my mri results as they had been taken just a couple of days before, when I was in a&e and told i had had a stroke, just 51 years old. They came back and said there was multiple issues with it so had to be repeated. At 1 am Monday morning a dr came in to tell me the news, I hadn’t had any strokes, the stroke like symptoms was actually swelling on my brain caused by lung and brain cancer, my brain couldn’t cope with it as I also suffer with PTSD and fibromyalgia I wanted to go home and process it but thankfully my ex husband was with me and told me it was a bad idea as apparently if it happened again it could be fatal! I stayed and am receiving ‘treatment’ while I wait for the specialist team to come and tell me how this will be treated, I have asked if it’s treatable but apparently with the brain all they can do is ‘manage it’ and try to keep it under controand ‘smal’ they couldn’t even say how ongi have, the only good thing is considering it is stage4 there doesn’t look to brand spores from the lung and the cancer is inthe top left lung. I don’t get how o never noticed any real problems till the ‘stoke like ymptoms’ appeared I’m relying on my caustic humour and sarcasm to get through but it’s so hard. I’m petrified of what is going to be said about treatment but know I have to try and stay strong and somehow positive, but it’s hard when I burst into tears and the thought of this death sentence is clouding over me that even writing this is so painful and knowing I will need to tell all my friends is breaking my heart
