Woman Discovers Multiple Brain Tumors After Blurred Vision‌

window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({article:'auto'}); !function (e, f, u, i) { if (!document.getElementById(i)){ e.async = 1; e.src = u; e.id = i; f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f); } }(document.createElement('script'), document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0], '//cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/zengernews-network/loader.js', 'tb_loader_script'); if(window.performance && typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');} window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-160618588-3',{'custom_map': {'dimension1': 'story_id'},'story_id': ''}); By Ben Barry A woman who was told she had seven brain tumors after suffering from blurred vision said it is like having a “ticking time bomb” in her head. Emma Hollick, 41, started experiencing blurred vision and booked an appointment with her GP. Doctors thought Emma was suffering from a virus, but her symptoms continued to worsen, and she lost the feeling in the left side of her face. She started to experience headaches and went to see her optician, who flagged concerns to her GP – but there was an 18-week wait for a referral. Desperate, Emma went to A&E, where she had an MRI scan, which revealed she had multiple meningiomas. A month later, Emma had an operation to remove one of the tumors – which was successful – as it was pressing on her optic nerve. Now, she has yearly MRI scans to monitor...