Callum's Story. Brain Tumour Awareness.

Cancer is a malevolent illness which many people avoid speaking about. Everyone goes through a tough stage in life at one point even if it’s a break up or a loss, everyone goes through some sort of heart ache in their lives. Brain Tumours is a cancerous tumour which is rarely spoken about compared to others, and therefore should get more recognition and awareness. Brain Tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40. 

Callum Story

My brother is one of the most bravest person that I have ever met. In 2002 at just four years old my little brother Callum was miss diagnosed with a Brain Tumour, after the GP insisted that he was fine and that my mum was a ‘neurotic’ mother. Unlink most four year old children playing out getting messy with not a care in the world, Callum was stuck in a hospital bed in serious, life threatening conditions, which there was huge chance that he wouldn't survive. Since then Callum has had a number of major cancer treatments, including surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, where he lost his hair and ended up in intensive care.

My brother was the youngest of five at the time, who was a very boisterous but a bright individual, until he started falling over himself, having continues headaches and vomiting. My mum knew that something wasn’t right even after being told by the GP that their was nothing wrong with him, so my mum and dad decided to go private. After going private, he had an MRI scan which the results were not what me and the rest of the family had wished for. He was then referred to the Queens Medical centre, where he had his operation which lasted up to ten hours, and then taken straight in to intensive care straight afterwards. Due to the brain surgery that he had the consultants were not sure if he would be able to speak again, but once he came out of theatre he said ‘I want my mummy’ but then it went again. Seeing my little brother hooked up to wires and looking fragile was one of the worst things that me and my family have had to experience.

The chemotherapy lead him to skin and bone, loss of hair and unable to talk and walk. Callum is 17 now but has been seriously damaged, leaving him with heart and growth conditions, dyspraxia and also unable for him to read and write. These are just a short list of the long term effects surgery has caused but we are all more thankful then ever to still have our solider here with us today, despite all his problems.

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