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The devastated parents praying for a miracle
Yorkshire Evening Post
|December 06, 2025
A devastated mum has been told her four-year-old daughter has just 12 to 18 months to live following a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.
Thea-Mae Bryan from Pontefract was a healthy, happy little girl until she suffered a seizure on May 31 this year.
Unresponsive, she was taken to Pinderfields Hospital.
Her mum Bethany Taylor said: "After an hour and doctors swarming Thea-Mae they finally controlled the seizure and told us they suspected meningitis and didn't know what effects the seizure had on her brain."
Thea-Mae was transferred to Leeds General Infirmary where doctors thought it could be an infection on the brain - or a tumour.
An MRI scan followed and Bethany and Thea-Mae's dad Alex were given the devastating news that Thea-Mae had a brain tumour.
Bethany said: "Our worst fears came to life.
This story is from the December 06, 2025 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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