'Sporty' teen who thought he was suffering from vertigo given shock diagnosis after collapsing during PE lesson

A ‘sporty’ teenager has been left deaf in one ear after being diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. Jayce Robinson, from Eccles, Salford, was diagnosed with vestibular schwannoma - a benign tumour that develops between the brain and skull close to the ear.

Jayce, 15, was rushed to hospital after collapsing during a PE lesson. His mother Kirsty Newton, 38, told the Manchester Evening News it wasn’t the first time Jayce collapsed and that for 18 months he had been suffering with bouts of illnesses that left him feeling sick and dizzy.

She says doctors initially thought he had vertigo and had prescribed him anti-sickness medicine. Jayce’s condition became more ‘severe’, and it wasn’t until last month that specialists got to the bottom of it.

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Kirsty said: “The collapsing was a bit more severe, it happened after school and they rang me and I had to take him to A&E, they checked him over and he seemed okay.

“They kept him for monitoring for a few hours and he seemed alright but it happened again a few times. He’s a very sporty lad you see, plays football and goes to the gym all the time and it was affecting him that way.

“The more sports he was doing the more noticeable it was. I was worried all the time.

“I didn’t know what it was or if he was going to be alright when he left the house. He’s a 15-year-old, he wanted to go to the gym, he wanted to go out. I couldn’t stop him without knowing what the reason was for.”

Last month, following his latest fall and trip to A&E, the family received a letter to say he had a scan booked in at Trafford General Hospital. The family was told to expect a call within a few weeks - but just an hour after Jayce