'I was diagnosed with a brain tumour after doctors had dismissed my symptoms as heatstroke'

Moli Morgan had been to Turkey on holiday and her symptoms were initially put down to too much sun. Ed Chatterton reports

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A YOUNG farmer was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour following a holiday in Turkey - after her symptoms were dismissed as heatstroke.

Moli Morgan, 22, from Powys, went to Antalya for a sunshine break with her boyfriend but suffered two seizures the night before she was due to fly home.

Turkish doctors told her it was probably down to heatstroke after spending too much time in the 30°C sun during their week-long trip.

She returned to the UK the following day and went to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital after being advised to by her sister, who is a nurse, and underwent a CT and an MRI scan.

Moli was left stunned when she was told she had a life-threatening 4cm glioma on the left side of her head despite feeling "pretty much completely fine".

She was transferred to a specialist neurology centre at Royal Stoke University Hospital, where it was decided the mass would be removed by an awake craniotomy.

During the operation, Moli had to repeat words in both Welsh and English to make sure the surgery didn't impact her ability to speak her first language, Welsh.

The four-hour procedure, on December 9 last year, proved a success and Moli is now back helping out on the family farm in Llanerfyl.

Doctors described her recovery as "incredible" and Moli said she is "back to normal" six months on and has now thanked the medics who saved her life.

Moli said: "It was obviously very scary and you expect the worst when you're told you have a brain tumour.