Bolton: Mum celebrates six months tumour free

Christina Gordon, 30, from Halliwell, was first diagnosed with a benign meningioma tumour in November 2021, after developing symptoms in 2019.

She celebrated with her family last weekend by raising just over £4,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Christina wants to use her experience so that anyone with symptoms like hers can hopefully be treated quicker.

She added: “It’s amazing to be at this point and to celebrate and give something back to the charity.

“It was ongoing for almost two years, but doctors couldn’t get to the bottom of it.

“It could have been a different story.

“Since surgery it has given me something to focus on as well as recovering.

“It means so much to me”.

Christina reunited with Annie Mae and Trent Joseph, after just coming out of hospital

Some of her symptoms included headaches, loss of smell, tiredness, and vision loss.

This type of tumour can usually be difficult to diagnose because of their slow growing nature.

Christine added: “This is why it took so long to get a scan.

“I am just so glad that it was successfully removed, and it wasn’t any worse.

“I hope that this can help raise awareness for the charity and for anyone suffering with symptoms like I was.”

After going back and forth to A&E, Christina went to several eye specialists, before having a CT scan at Bolton Hospital,and then an MRI scan at Salford Royal Eye Hospital.

Christina said: “Doctors found that I had a benign tumour that was 4cm.

“I was in a lot of pain and really tired and dizzy.

“I had to stay at Salford for 19 days.”

But Christina and her partner Gareth are planning to get married next year and she is looking to the future with a lot of hope.

Christina celebrating with her family during a fundraiser for The Brain Tumour Charity

Christina added: “I am just concentrating on mine and Gareth’s two young children, Annie Mae and Trent Joseph, and our family and building our home.

“I am glad to get back to work and driving now too, because I couldn’t for six months.

“I am still under observation and have to get an MRI every six months, because it can grow back.

“But doctors are hopeful that if it does grow back, it will be benign.”