Brain cancer diagnosis

In February last year , ukraine was invaded and I somehow took that as inspiration to rekindle my passion for fitness. I've used a high frequency push/pull routine that had me deadlifting and squatting every other day. Occasionally I would lose co-ordination of my legs andeven collapsed a couple times. A visit to my GP was scheduled and initial bloodwork listed "depleted" iron stores". I was presccribed an iron supplement. Symptoms persisted until one day I was taken to emergency by my in laws when I had another "jelly"leg" episode, I was also spewing a coffee coloured liquid, this would turn out to be blood due to a H pylori ulcer that would be diagnosed the next day when I received an endoscopy in hospital. Prior to then I had been getting random bouts of "jelly legs", sometimes collapsing in a heap. would also experience "buzzsaw" headaches on occasion and I've never been prone to get headaches. I seemed to be bumping into things all the time especially on the left, got nailed by many door handles, my left shoulder still has a mark from one of these door handle encounters. . That evening in the casualty ward one of the doctors booked me into a CT scan. After an initial scan, the tech decided they needed higher contrast so they administered an iodine injection. The results of this high contrast CT was the first time my wife and I heard the word "mass", my wife would late tell me the technician gasped when they saw the image. The next day I would meet an amazing neurosurgeon, the youngest in Africa my wife told me, I was booked for anMRI and the results and need for immediate surgery was discussed with me.

Turned out it was an 8 x4 grade 3 astrocytoma (as per biopsy genetic analysis, which also determined it was a single point mutation. It wasn't because of any lifestyle factorsalthough I was a smoker since 2009. One positive outcome from the experience was that it precipitated me finally giving up cigarettes which I had failed at quitting many times

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