Nurse who struggled to read aloud diagnosed with brain tumour

A nurse was diagnosed with a brain tumour which made her think people were speaking a different language.

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00:00Morning. It's Friday. I'm not feeling good this morning. I'm feeling tired and the

00:15realization of it all is sinking in I think. My head hurts and I'm dosed up on

00:24morphine. I think they're gonna send me home today, probably, or tomorrow, which

00:32is good in some ways because it means I get to see the kids. It's a bit easier

00:36and I'll be in my own bed but I don't feel like I'm kind of able to do much as

00:43well so in a way it's been nice being here because people do things for you. So

00:51I'm still waiting at the moment but I think that'll be the plan and I'll

00:56update you as I get any more news. Hi. So I've just done a really stupid thing and

01:06Googled the name of my tumor and everyone says don't Google but I couldn't

01:15not do it so I did and now I wish I hadn't done it. No one had told me how

01:21big the tumor was or where it was and I just asked one of the nurses because I

01:26wanted to know and it's three centimetres by three centimetres by 2.6

01:34centimetres and it's sitting behind my eye which explains a lot of the pain

01:41behind my eye and some of the problems I'm having with my eyes and I've

01:47Googled it and it says it's really difficult to operate on because of how

01:51it's positioned so now I'm worried about that and that's all I can think about

01:56which is a bit silly. Morning. It's Sunday now and I'm home. I came home

02:06yesterday and it's nice to be home, really nice to be home although it feels

02:14strange because normally when you come home from hospital it's because you're

02:18better and I'm home but I'm not better so that felt a bit strange. I'm going to

02:27Cardiff this week. I've got to wait for confirmation of when my appointment will

02:33be but they felt it was better for me just to go home from my mental health

02:39really and also because it's easier apparently to arrange appointment

02:46for somebody that's at home rather than doing a bed-to-bed transfer which

02:51absolutely makes sense because there aren't any beds as we all know. So yeah

02:58just a bit of a waiting game. I'm on double the morphine I was on in hospital

03:05just the pain is is quite severe now around my eye but I'm at least

03:15able to sleep in my own bed which is really nice and have visitors and the

03:20kids are going to come and see me this afternoon which is lovely. I can't wait

03:23to see them and I've had some visits from my friends already which has been

03:27so nice and I've got one of my good friends coming this afternoon and yeah

03:33so it's really that's really lovely although it's I'm finding it more tiring

03:38than I thought I would. So yeah that's the update for today just trying to stay

03:49positive. I've been diagnosed with a brain tumour. It all happened quite

03:56suddenly. I've been having headaches for about two weeks and ended up going for a

04:03scan on Monday and they found that I've got a mass on my brain and so I've been

04:11in hospital a week. I came home last night and I'm going to be seeing the

04:15neurosurgeons in Cardiff this week to see if they can operate on it or what

04:23the treatments going to be. If they're able to get to it. It's behind my

04:29eyes so it's a bit of a difficult place to remove it I think.