A YOUNG woman wrote off two cars in accidents after suffering what she thought was panic attacks.
Jennifer Bradshaw started having severe headaches, felt sick and sensitive to noise and seizures.
She thought it was down to anxiety and migraines, after being left unable to speak or move while having seizures.
Her doctors gave her medication for both conditions, but a few months afterwards she had two seizures while driving.
She wrote off both vehicles after crashing into some railings, and then another car.
After the second crash she went to get her shoulders and back checked, and was sent home with painkillers.
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Jennifer told Yorkshire Live: "I started to get strange feelings where for just a few seconds I couldn't respond or be able to move at all. I wasn't even able to reply when someone was talking to me.
"This happened another time when I was behind the wheel of the car and my partner, Matty, had to grab the wheel and steer us onto a smaller road – it was really terrifying but I kept being told nothing was really that wrong with me."
Her symptoms got more intense, with Jennifer needing a bucket to be sick into nearby at all times.
Jennifer's doctor gave her more migraine medication but eventually the headache became unbearable and an ambulance was called.
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She was taken for a CT scan, where a large mass was found on her brain.
The now 28-year-old then had had a 13-hour operation a few days later, which removed about 70 per cent of the tumour.
It was confirmed to be a Grade 2 astrocytoma – a type of cancer that develops in the brain or spinal cord.
She said: "I was scared and worried about what was going to happen to me – the diagnosis is not what I expected at all."
Eight months after the first procedure, Jennifer had a second operation to try and get the rest of the tumour.
But doctors couldn't remove all of it, so she needed six weeks of radiotherapy.
She said: "I was in utter shock that I now had cancer. I couldn't understand how this had happened to me."
A pal told her about The Brain Tumour Charity, which supported her through her illness.
It inspired her to share her story to raise awareness of the symptoms brain tumours can produce.
She said: "Everything has changed – no more cars or driving, my memory is terrible and I lose my temper so easily when I never used to.
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"But the people who have supported me have got me to where I am today, they help me to enjoy each day and to fight my way through it all.
"I will be forever thankful for all that my family and friends do for me."
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