A young mum who went to a medical centre after feeling ‘funny’ during a beauty treatment has been diagnosed with an egg-sized brain tumour.
Skye Hamilton, today news 27, was rushed to the hospital in Western six months ago where doctors were only able to remove some of the mass – as taking it all away would have caused paralysis.
The horror last news diagnosis came after the mum of three underwent emergency surgery a year ago following complications from giving birth.
But despite the most recent surgery on the tumour, Ms Hamilton is still facing challenges.
Just last week the mother started to get double vision and discovered that four lesions had appeared after doing an MRI scan.
Skye Hamilton (pictured, with her partner Jacob), 27, was rushed to the hospital in Western Sydney six months ago where doctors were only able to remove some of the egg-sized tumour – as taking it all away would have caused paralysis
Just last week the mother (pictured, with her three children) started to get double vision and discovered that four lesions had appeared after doing an MRI scan
Cancer was then found in her cerebrospinal fluid in the spine after she underwent more scans and a lumbar puncture at Concord Hospital.
Ms Hamilton posted another alarming development to social media on Saturday.
‘The swelling in my brain is so large my neurologist is surprised I’m even able to walk, as it is that catastrophic – I should be half-paralysed by now,’ she said.
‘The swelling started to move to the left side of my brain, it’s all down my mid brain. Thankfully I’m on steroids to help reduce the swelling and after one week my vision has gone back to normal.’
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‘No one knows where this cancer is in my body but it is there just hiding somewhere,’ Ms Hamilton said.
‘Whatever is in her body is causing all these things in her brain to go wrong,’ her sister Zoe told .
Zoe and Ms Hamilton’s brother Nathan have banded around their sister’s family of five including partner Jacob and her two boys, aged 7 and 4 – plus her 10-month-old daughter.
One of Ms Hamilton’s sons even calls his mum’s disease ‘a monster’.
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