Circus artist Paige Footner (30) years suffered from a common symptom for which she decided to see a doctor. Examination eventually revealed a much more serious disease that was not related to the symptom at all. , it turned out to have a large tumor in her brain.
Paige started to complain about tinnitus four years ago, a condition that causing that in her ear constantly heard the annoying sound. “It wasn’t a ringing, rather fins and pulsation. I talked about it with my doctor who sent me to otorhinolaryngology. I found that I have damaged nerves on the left side“she said.
Initially, doctors suspected that Damage is related to less head injury during training. Paige is in spite of that At the beginning of June she ordered magnetic resonance imaging. It is this examination revealed that in the brain in the right posterior frontal lobe has a four -centimeter tumor.
Interestingly, The disease has nothing to do with its ear symptom. “It was a complete coincidence. The tumor with found in the wrong place to cause tinnitus. Both neurosurgeons told me I had great happiness because it has not yet caused me any symptoms“Paige noted, who also works as a rescuer.
Circusant She was going to the festival in Edinburgh, but she had to undergo a brain surgery instead. “I have already paid everything. It cost me $ 13,000, and I haven’t had travel insurance yet. Since I am 30 years old, they consider me old in the circus, so I really try and put everything in it,” she revealed, with the fact that he is currently after the operation and is gradually recovering.
