A father of two who had been suffering from frequent headaches has discovered that he has a rare and inoperable brain tumor.
Dylan Tobin, 26, had been suffering from recurring headaches for months but his doctors had only put it down to tension.
Medics hesitated to perform scans because of the radiation impact and there was no history of tumors in his family.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Dylan said: “I woke up one morning in early December and I couldn’t move.
“It was a migraine to the point where I had to wear sunglasses in the dark and couldn’t look at my phone. I couldn’t open my eyes and went to an optometrist who gave me a referral to go straight to hospital.”
The father-of-two spent a week in the hospital where doctors performed a biopsy and an MRI.
Two weeks before Christmas, the family received the news that he has a rare glioma cancerous tumor that’s 7.5cm wide and 3cm long.
They were told that he has 12 to 18 months to live as the life-threatening tumor was inoperable due to its positioning.
“The tumour is basically on the main control centre on the brain and if they removed it my quality of life would significantly decrease,” he said.
“At first it was really difficult to accept but I’ve come to terms with it,” he expressed. “I wake up every day and say to myself: ‘I’m going to make it to my daughter’s 18th birthday.’”
Dylan is now taking a daily chemotherapy tablet and undergoing radiotherapy.
“The chemo is ongoing in stints of six months; I take a tablet every day for five days, then have three weeks off it then again for five days taking a higher dose,” he said.
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