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I am doing a sky dive to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity in memory of my mum Theresa Donovan.

For all those that knew my mum know she was a truly amazing lady

My mum was told she had a brain tumour in mid October when my step dad rush my mum to hospital as she was acting unusual, mum underwent many tests including CT scans, MRI scans,  following a short stay in EAU in Colchester Hospital, mum was taken Queens Hospital in Romford, where she had brain surgery to try and remove the mass, this was a very long operation, after the operation mum spent the night in intensive care and was allowed to come home the next day. At this point we were all so relieved to have mum home with us, although it was very hard for the family as mum required 24 hour care.

One week later we went back to Queens Hospital to meet with the consultant who gave us the heart breaking news that it was a grade 4 glioblastoma, and that this tumour would never go completely, but they could use chemotherapy and radiotherapy to reduce the size of the tumour, we were told that mums life expectancy would be one year. We went on to care for mum at home who was making progress in her recovery and was due to start her chemotherapy on 18^th November.

During the early hours on the 15^th November, mum wasn’t very well, she had sickness and diarrhoea and was struggling with movement on one side of her body. We made the decision to phone 999, who took mum to a&e in Colchester. They did a CT scan that showed there was swelling on the brain. After a very short while at a&e we were told that the swelling was too serve.

As a family we didn’t have very long to get our heads around the diagnosis let alone losing mum. So i want to raise money to help with the detection of this horrid tumour. My mum was a young, fit and well lady and this all happened over night, so there are no signs!

Thank you for your support and any donation big or small.