It seemed like a trivial ailment and not to worry too much about. Instead, the young woman died at just 33 years old.
Dizziness and a little herpes, nothing more. Instead, much more was hidden under these seemingly trivial symptoms.
Anneka Johnstone with her baby/ web archive-Read it
The girl, one 33 year old young mother, she thought she was suffering from “baby brain,” a condition that affects women during motherhood. Instead, within 6 months she was gone, leaving behind her husband and a small daughter. The protagonist of this story that comes from Great Britain is Anneka Johnstone, who died of a brain tumor in November 2019. Today her husband Alan shares her story to raise awareness of the disease and raise money for cancer research. Without her, their only daughter is growing upSienna. When the mother died, the baby was only a few months old.
The first wrong diagnosis
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Anneka Johnstone suffered from dizzy and thought she had “baby brain”. Since the symptoms did not disappear, to remove any doubts the young woman went to the hospital for a check-up. The first diagnosis that the doctors had given to Anneka Johnstone, who was a dietician by trade, was herpes simplex. The doctors had given her some antibiotics that were supposed to help her get rid of the virus. A week later, the woman passed out while she was holding her newly born daughter. The return to the hospital this time gave a different result: the analyzes revealed a glioblastoma, a aggressive type of cancer that forms in the brain or spinal cord. Shortly after the terrible news, the mother of 33 passed away: cancer taken away from her affections in just six months. “All she wanted was to be a mom, be there for Sienna’s 18th and attend her wedding”- the husband said. The girl is now 4 years old. She has only seen her mother in photos, but her father tells her that she was a wonderful woman. This year, Alan will be running the London Marathon in memory of Anneka and to raise money for The Brain Tumor Charity. So far, he has collected £55,000 which he will donate to charity.
