Pick Me Up!

SEARCHING FOR TIME

Waking up in September, I could tell something was a little off. I couldn’t feel my feet! At 20 weeks pregnant with my first child, I didn’t think too much of it.

‘My feet feel weird,’ I told my then fiancé Danny, 29.

‘Rest up,’ he told me, kissing my forehead.

Back in August 2021, we had found out we were having a girl and I was over the moon.

I couldn’t wait for girly days and family holidays.

Only the next day, the sensation got worse and after a few days, I couldn’t move my right leg and struggled to walk.

Deciding to go to my GP, I was back and forth for various appointments and scans.

I didn’t think it was serious, but not long after, my world came crashing down.

‘You have a brain tumour,’ a consultant told me. ‘I’m sorry.’ Sat with my mum Barbara, 62, we went into

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