U Nicolette Richardson (41) to 17. November 2020 She discovered a severe headache. She visited her own A doctor who told her she was suffering from migraine. If her condition does not improve due to medicines, he sent her to the emergency room. A few hours later, she ended up in a hospital where she underwent magnetic resonance imaging. She confirmed that It suffers from glioblastoma tumor of the fourth stage brain – the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
Nicolette needed November 23 Urgent surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible, but it remains paralysis on the left side of the body, blindness to one eye and partial loss of vision on the other. Doctors put the woman in a coma after surgery, but she never woke up again. The mother of eight -year -old Isabella died on the last day of November after disconnection from the devices.
“At one point, we looked at the houses in which we planned a common future, and in the next fell ill. I suddenly found myself in a world where my child’s mother fought for life,” said her partner Austen Ham-Howes (45). Nicolette had a type of brain tumor, which is most common in adults (32 % of all brain tumors). Tumors 1. And 2. Grades are usually not cancerous and can grow relatively slowly. However, tumors 3 and 4 are more advanced, says The Brain Tumour Charity.
According to the organization, the average glioblastoma survival time is 12 to 18 months – only 25 % of patients will survive more than one year and only 5 % of patients will survive more than five years. “I was so angry and confused. Nicolette had no symptoms, but our whole life turned inside out within a few weeks and we were deprived of a chance of a fair fight with the disease, ” Austen was confessed.
“I know it wasn’t right, but I felt addicted to people who had time to cope with this devastating disease. For us it was as fast as we pull out the patch, ” added.
