Married At First Sight star JJ Slater has been diagnosed with a health condition that caused him to drop a huge amount of weight.
09.12.2023 - 16:59 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A boy was diagnosed with a brain tumour after his mum noticed he was blinking too much. Varden Callaghan, now six, had been blinking excessively, rubbing his eyes and getting irritable since he was eight months old.
But medics consistently misdiagnosed his symptoms as sinus problems. He became more unsteady on his feet - especially when he blinked - and started wetting the bed, so his worried mum, Lisa, 38, took him back to the hospital.
The brave youngster is now being monitored with regular scans and has begun a phased return to school. Lisa, from Bromley, London, said: "We went on holiday to Ireland around Easter 2022 and realised Varden was starting to lose his balance when he blinked.
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"He’d be doing something and stop still as if trying to steady himself. He also started wetting the bed again, despite being fully potty-trained since the age of two.
"The regression was so severe there were periods he’d wet the bed every single night. We ended up having to put nappies on him again, which he was really upset about.
"I booked an urgent appointment with a private doctor for our return and it was then I asked if we could have an MRI. Less than 48 hours after the scan, as I was getting ready to do the school run, I received a call telling me they’d found a large mass on Varden’s brain.”
He was aged four when he was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma in April 2022. At 3cm wide, Varden’s tumour was considered too large to leave in and
Married At First Sight star JJ Slater has been diagnosed with a health condition that caused him to drop a huge amount of weight.
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