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07.01.2022 - 17:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A young Scot is giving back to charity after being inspired by her mum’s brave brain tumour battle which saw her undergo 10 different operations.
Gillian Wilson was diagnosed with a craniopharyngioma brain tumour, which was benign, in May 2010 after suffering severe headaches, dizziness and forgetfulness.
She was sent for an eye test and a subsequent MRI at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow where medics found the mass behind her pituitary gland.
After being admitted, daughter Alisha Wilson, then 11, was unable to see her mother for several weeks and asked the nurses: “Is mum going to die?”
Thankfully doctors were able to remove the majority of the tumour but it soon grew back and filled with fluid.
A shunt was inserted which initially worked but Gillian, 51, has now undergone 10 different operations after having complications and suffers short-term memory loss.
Daughter Alisha, an assistant teacher, is now raising funds for Brain Tumour Research in a bid to stop others suffering like her mum did.
She said: “This is a cause that’s really close to my heart. Who knows where my mum would be if it wasn’t for all of the research that has already been done?
“If we can get funding for more research, then maybe others don’t need to go through what Mum has.
“I was 11 at the time and didn’t have a clue what was going on. Mum was in hospital for weeks, and I wasn’t allowed in to see her.
“It was heart-breaking because I’m very close to mum. I asked the nurses ‘Is Mum going to die?’ but they reassured me that they were doing their best.”
Surgeons removed most of the tumour on June 6, 2010, and in the following months, Gillian was doing well.
But in September she became forgetful again after the tumour grew back and had filled up with
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