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My friend, his music and the man behind the brain tumour story There is a reason this page has remained almost empty for so many years. It wasn’t because I had nothing to say about… View Post

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Living with word-finding difficulties and paraphasia after brain tumour surgery has been one of my long-term challenges. But something I never expected was how singing and a simple karaoke app would help me reconnect with… View Post

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On 7 February 2013, Claire Bullimore — better known as Aunty M—and her mum, Eileen B, introduced themselves to Croydon Radio (Podcast) listeners for the very first time. This special archive episode takes us back… View Post

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Read More Meningioma Stories https://auntymbraintumours.com/category/meningioma-stories/ If You Have Recently Been Diagnosed With a Meningioma If you have landed on this page after a meningioma diagnosis, whether it is your own or someone you love, please… View Post

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How Can Your GP Help After A Brain Tumour Diagnosis? When you are diagnosed with a brain tumour or recovering from emergency brain surgery, it can feel as though everyone expects you to know what… View Post

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One of the biggest lessons my brain tumour taught me wasn’t medical. It was personal. I learnt to trust myself. Before my diagnosis, I spent months questioning my own instincts. I knew something wasn’t right.… View Post

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When I was diagnosed with a brain tumour, I think part of me imagined recovery would eventually arrive with a clear finish line. You know the scene. The inspirational music starts playing. The hero gets… View Post

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“Recovery taught me to value quality over quantity.” One of the things nobody prepared me for after my brain tumour diagnosis was how much some of my relationships would change. When you’re facing something life-changing,… View Post

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“Brain fog affected my confidence more than my memory.” When people hear the words “brain fog,” they often think it simply means being forgetful. For me, it was much more than that. One of the… View Post

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“Invisible recovery is still real recovery.” One of the strangest parts of surviving a brain tumour was realising how quickly people assumed I was “better” once I physically looked well again. After brain surgery, the… View Post

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“Healing isn’t a competition.” One of the hardest emotional lessons I had to learn after surviving a brain tumour was that recovery doesn’t follow the same timeline for everyone. For a long time, I compared… View Post

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“You can survive something and still feel lonely afterwards.” One of the most unexpected parts of surviving a brain tumour was how lonely recovery sometimes felt. Not because I didn’t have supportive people around me.… View Post

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“I Didn’t Feel Like Myself Anymore” One of the hardest parts of surviving a brain tumour wasn’t the surgery itself. It was figuring out who I was afterwards. People often talk about recovery as though… View Post

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People often assume serious illness is serious all the time. Honestly? Sometimes it’s ridiculous. There were moments during my brain tumour journey filled with fear, uncertainty, exhaustion and grief. Moments where life felt unbearably heavy… View Post

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Well, today is my brain surgery “cranniversary” — 18 years since surgeons removed a ten-centimetre brain tumour that was pressing against my vision and memory. People often talk about survival like it’s the finish line.… View Post

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Tomorrow marks my brain surgery “cranniversary” — 18 years since surgeons removed a ten-centimetre brain tumour that was pressing against my vision and memory. At 25 years old, I thought I was simply exhausted. I… View Post

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From a Mother’s Perspective: The Journey That Changed Everything For Mother and Daughter In 2008, my life changed forever. I was twenty-five years old when I called my mum late at night while she was… View Post

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Why Earlier Diagnosis Matters – Dr Victoria McBride on Missed Symptoms, GP Education and Hope I had the privilege of speaking with Dr Victoria McBride about why she has become such a passionate voice for… View Post

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Living Fully With a Grade 2 IDH-Mutant Astrocytoma A diagnosis that came out of nowhere When Jaime Olbertz first learned she had a brain tumour, it wasn’t because of symptoms that led doctors straight to… View Post

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