'My family trip to Turkey took a devastating turn - I was rushed back to Manchester for surgery'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum says a family trip to Turkey turned into a horror holiday after being told she had a potentially life-threatening condition.
Rebecca Payne says she was assured by doctors in the UK she was healthy enough to make the trip abroad with her husband and two children.
She says a doctor in Turkey “took one look” at the then 45-year-old and rushed her to hospital. Rebecca says she was a “perfectly fit and healthy” active mum-of-two before she began experiencing what she thought were headaches.
Ahead of an October half-term holiday with her family in 2019, the pains in Rebecca’s head began to worsen. Now aged 49, Rebecca understands the pain and nausea she was experiencing were caused by a brain tumour - which went undetected for almost two years. READ MORE: ‘My daughter died before getting to live out her dream, so I’m doing it for her and taking her with me’ READ MORE: 'Nobody gets out of this alive': The 42-year-old who 'jumped through all the hoops' but will still die from horrific illness “In 2019, I began to get headaches.
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