The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Just over a year ago Alice Prior was undergoing intensive tests having been diagnosed with a brain tumour – now the 20-year-old plans to throw herself out of a plane!
On April 9 last year, Alice was sitting on the floor at home in Spalding wrapping up her mum’s birthday presents when she collapsed.
She couldn’t get up and called her dad who rushed home from work.
Alice was taken by ambulance to the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston where a CT scan revealed calcification on her brain.
A few days later an MRI scan meant Alice was given the devastating news that she had a brain tumour.
After spending three weeks in the Pilgrim, Alice was waiting for an appointment at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre when she started losing her memory, along with the vision in her right eye.
She was rushed to QMC that night faced with the threat of losing her sight permanently.
Alice spent three weeks in hospital undergoing intensive tests including wires into her brain and lumber punctures.
The results showed that currently the tumour is dormant and not life-threatening.
However because the tumour is in the middle of Alice’s brain a biopsy to test for cancer was deemed too risky at that time. She is due to meet her surgeon next week to discuss whether the situation has changed.
If the tumour is cancerous an operation to remove it would hold huge risks for Alice and doctors have told her chemotherapy would be the first step.
As Alice has no idea what the future might hold for her, she has decided to start living life to the full.
To kick this off and to thank staff at QMC for all their care and support Alice is doing a tandem skydive on June 14, for which she has already raised £300 of her £500 target.
Her parents bought her the jump as a birthday present, so every penny raised through sponsorship will go directly to the neurosurgery department at the hospital.
lTo make a donation visit www.justgiving.com/Alice-Prior or all into the Voice office at 14-16 Winsover Road, Spalding.
