Mum thought she was 28 years younger

GLENN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HER BRAIN TUMOUR BATTLE

- KATIE TIMMS

A PLYMOUTH woman was given six months to live after she was diagnosed with a brain tumour, which had been missed on a scan years before.

Glenn Lilley was given the life-limiting prognosis after she was diagnosed with a meningioma in 2021, after the 71-year-old began suffering with tinnitus and vertigo.

Glenn was warned without surgery she would die within months. She woke up believing she was 28 years younger than she was and believed her sons who were grown adults were still living at home as teens.

The grandmother-of-five said: "I thought I was 41, not 69, which was my actual age at the time. I'd lost years of my life and thought my boys, who were grown adults, were still teenagers.

"With my full medical notes in front of him, Professor Whitfield said the mass could be seen on a scan from 2017 and the ENT specialist had missed the then grape-sized mass. He commented on how aggressively the tumour had grown since that scan.