Girl, 6, treated for brain tumour after she hallucinated during playground game
Megan Taylor, from Gloucestershire, experienced an intermittent petit-mal epileptic seizure during the game last August
A GIRL was treated for a deadly brain tumour after she hallucinated during a game of "piggy-in-the-middle".
Little Megan Taylor from Gloucestershire, appeared normal growing up and never showed signs of the tumour which had been growing inside her since birth.
But when playing in her back garden last August, her parent’s Barry, 47, and Tracy, 41, realised Megan was seeing things.
She had experienced an intermittent petit-mal epileptic seizure, prompting her parents to take her to the doctor’s.
After undergoing an MRI scan she was diagnosed with an apricot-sized brain tumour the next day.
Mum Tracy said: “When she was playing piggy-in-the-middle in the back garden with her siblings, she suddenly blanked out.
“She turned to one side and stared at the fence and starting hallucinating, so we knew we had to go to the doctor's.
“We were referred from the GP for some further tests, as she had previously been diagnosed as having a form of epilepsy called petit-mal, which was caused by the undetected tumour.
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“The day after her MRI scan, Barry and I were told that she had a very large brain tumour on the left side of her head.
“It’s crazy to think that that one game of piggy-in-the-middle saved her life and, although it was devastating, I’m so glad we found out when we did!”
After having brain surgery to remove the benign tumour in December, Megan is now recovering at home with her family.
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