Nurse given devastating diagnosis 'there and then' after face began to 'droop'

A nurse was given a devastating diagnosis 'there and then' after her face began to droop.

Louise Trott knew something was wrong when her face began to droop to one side, the Liverpool Echo reports. The 29-year-old children's nurse initially put it down to an infection, but was sent for tests at the hospital.

In October last year she had scans and was diagnosed the very same day with a Grade 3 astrocytoma brain tumour. Louise, from Huyton, couldn't have surgery due to the location of the tumour so underwent radiotherapy.

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She will now have chemotherapy for a year. Unable to work, Louise has six months left of treatment before it ends, but the NHS cannot offer further treatment.

Now, a fundraising page has been set up to help the nurse for potential treatment options but also payments while she is out of work. Close friend Lauren Windsor told the ECHO: "She didn't have many symptoms but a few days before she was diagnosed it started with a facial droop to one side.

"She was diagnosed there and then and had further investigations to confirm it was grade three but then they said because of the location it was impossible to remove."

Louise has been a nurse for more than eight years, helping poorly children and families with brain tumours. Louise added: "She's been told that once her chemotherapy course is finished they can't offer anymore treatment on the NHS other than to monitor her and make sure it doesn't grow.

"So we are trying to raise as much as we can so it's there is she needs to seek alternative treatment. There's a very slim chance the chemo will shrink it completely but she's out of work. The scan she had after radiotherapy showed