A mum says she is distraught after being taken off the books of her lifelong GP practice for moving metres away. Emma Shaw claims the GP removed her after she temporarily moved 30m away whilst her new house is being built.
28.10.2022 - 19:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A heartbroken mum has been given months to live after a brain tumour was misdiagnosed as a 'sinus infection'.
Jennifer Roscoe's migraines began in early 2019 along with heavy bouts of sickness but doctors believed she had simply been suffering from a sinus infection.
The mother-of-two young children, from Merseyside, was given beta blockers to prevent the migraines but she was so ill with side effects from the tablets that she was unable to continue working as a pharmacy technician. The left side of Jennifer's body went completely numb in June 2019 and she started vomiting and mentioned that her vision was blurred, the Mirror reports.
Her worried husband, David rushed her to Whiston Hospital where doctors gave her an MRI scan which confirmed that was she was suffering from a brain tumour. “When I was told, I actually felt relief because I knew I hadn’t been making it all up," Jennifer said.
"I knew so little about brain tumours that it didn’t occur to me that I had cancer. David looked shell-shocked because his dad died from stomach cancer, and he saw the suffering he went through.”
Doctors removed the whole tumour a week later as Jennifer underwent surgery at The Walton Centre in Liverpool. But the family were told the heart breaking news that her cancer was terminal. The mum, who has two young daughters, Emmy and Aria, said: "[I] bounced back quite quickly and went home after a couple of nights in hospital.
''That was nicer for the children because they were scared when they saw me with two black eyes with wires attached to me. The histology report showed that my tumour was a GBM.
''I didn’t want to know my prognosis because I don’t believe figures like that. But I’ve since learned that the average life expectancy is
A mum says she is distraught after being taken off the books of her lifelong GP practice for moving metres away. Emma Shaw claims the GP removed her after she temporarily moved 30m away whilst her new house is being built.
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