I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes — the truth was much worse

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Amy Carroll, 34, (L) a pregnant mum who is having to give birth prematurely after she thought that her gestational diabetes was making her dizzy and faint, but it turned out to be a brain tumour. // Amy Carroll, 34, was pregnant with her fourth child when she began feeling faint and dizzy, but she brushed it off as a symptom of her gestational diabetes. One night, her partner Torrin woke up to Amy having a seizure in bed next to him. He rushed her to hospital and presumed it was a hypo from the diabetes, but two days later doctors confirmed that Amy had stage four brain cancer with seven masses on her brain. She was then sent to John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where they verified this was a secondary cancer to the breast cancer that she battled and overcame in 2021. Treatment is so urgent that doctors have scheduled an emergency c-section on Monday July 6, when Amy will be almost 31 weeks.
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