An 11-year-old British girl went to the hospital 30 times and, after several misdiagnoses, finally learned that she had a brain tumor.
Until the final diagnosis, the girl was identified with various illnesses and migraines and even had to change her lenses around four times, reports The Independent.
Tia Gordon had consultations with her family doctor, went to various emergency services and made several calls to Britain’s Health 24. All this over the course of three years.
The situation changed when the condition began to affect her balance and abilities, at which point she was recommended an urgent MRI scan. The scan detected a 3.5 cm tumor in her brain.
The first symptoms, her mother recalls, began during the pandemic. But the situation worsened between November 2023 and January 2024, when she woke up every day feeling sick and vomiting. At school they also began to notice that something wasn’t right, and she was admitted to hospital as a matter of urgency.
Tia was diagnosed with the most common type of childhood brain tumor, a pilocytic astrocytoma, and transported to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, where she underwent a 10-hour operation to remove the benign tumor.
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