‘I blacked out at home with my children - then I was diagnosed with a devastating disease’

A mum of five described how her ‘head exploded’ as she blacked out at home with her children before being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Georgie Maynard, 47, was in her house with her youngest kids - aged 15, 13, and nine - when she started to feel unwell with a migraine so sat down on the sofa. She then blacked out, so her children called an ambulance and she was taken to hospital.

Georgie had an MRI scan which revealed she had a glioblastoma - a fast growing, cancerous brain tumour - and would need surgery to remove some of the mass. She then underwent six weeks of chemotherapy and radiotherapy - before having a further six months of chemotherapy.

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Her two most recent scans, in April and July this year, showed that her tumour is stable, with no growth. Now, she said she is in the "waiting game" and has to have scans every three months to monitor her tumour.

Describing the moment she blacked out, Georgie, a market research leader, from Appleton, Oxfordshire, said: "I had a headache so I thought I would sit in the garden and have a few minutes in the garden but that made me feel even worse.

"I came back inside and sat on the sofa - that is when my head exploded and I blacked out.

"Twenty minutes later, I regained my consciousness to slowly discover my room no longer just had my three children in it – but the ambulance crew, my brother Charlie Maynard, and his wife.

"Wow, I was incredibly lucky to have such a speedy response."

She was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where an MRI scan a few days later showed she had a glioblastoma. Six weeks later, she underwent a craniotomy - a surgical procedure that involves removing a