The boy whose parents, teachers, and doctors accused him of faking symptoms because he was always tired and sleepy was diagnosed with a brain tumor one year after he started reporting feeling unwell.
11-year-old Charlie Card from Britain upset his teachers and parents after he started skipping school due to what he described as tiredness and neck stiffness.
While the doctors blamed the boy’s Xbox for his symptoms, doctors insisted that the virus he was diagnosed with could contribute to his condition. In addition, they told the parents to take Charlie to a psychologist who would help them find out if the boy was imagining the pain.
It wasn’t until months later when the boy began experiencing eye pain that he was scanned and diagnosed with a brain tumor.
The following day, the tumor was removed in an invasive surgery that has taken place 6 months after Charlie’s symptoms started.
“Listen to the kids if they tell you they are not right. I say to this day that it was Charlie who got himself diagnosed because he wouldn’t take no for an answer,” the boy’s father, Gary, said.
“Before he was so open, funny, had a wicked sense of humor but now he is a shell of his former self. He won’t open up, he has lost so much weight, 90 per cent of his hair is gone including his eyebrows and his lips are dry and cracked. He is in constant pain.”
Speaking of the too-often dismissed disease, the father added:
“We were told that a GP will never diagnose a brain tumor and if they do it will be once in their whole career. We don’t blame the doctors because it is just so common for brain tumors to be dismissed.
“The school were basically saying they thought he was putting it on. And it did seem like that to be honest.”
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