Young Powys farmer thanks medics after brain tumour removed
Moli Morgan, 22, went to Antalya for a sunshine break with her boyfriend but suffered two seizures the night before she was due to fly home.
Turkish doctors told her it was probably down to heatstroke after spending too much time in the 30c sun during their week-long trip.
She returned to the UK the following day and went to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital after being advised to by her sister, who is a nurse, and underwent a CT and MRI scan.
Moli was left stunned to be told she had a life-threatening 4cm glioma on the left side of her head despite feeling "pretty much completely fine".
She was transferred to a specialist neurology centre at Royal Stoke University Hospital, where it was decided the mass would be removed by an awake craniotomy.
During the operation, Moli had to repeat words back in both Welsh in English to make sure the surgery didn't impact her ability to speak her first language, which is Welsh.
The four hour long procedure on December 9 last year proved a success and Moli is now back helping out on the family farm in Llanerfyl.
Moli said she is "back to normal" six months on and has thanked the medics who saved her life.
Moli said: "It was obviously very scary and you expect the worst when you're told you have a brain tumour.
"I had no real warning signs before or during the holiday, I had never suffered any symptoms before.
"I have only ever had a migraine but didn't think anything of it at the time. Everything seemed to happen quickly."
Moli booked the holiday with her boyfriend of six years Ollie Higgins, 22, a mechanic, in October last year.
She added "We'd had a lovely week there, it was really relaxed and there was a water park at the hotel which was great. It was hot but not unbearable, around 28-30c.
"I felt absolutely fine and there were no warning signs for what was about to come the day before we were due to fly home.
"I'd had trouble sleeping but felt OK apart from that and then I suffered a seizure at around 1am in the morning following by a second one about 20 minutes later.
"My boyfriend called the medics and they had a doctor on site at the hotel who told me it was probably just heatstroke.
"We had been in the sun all day and I hadn't drank much water, so I sort of thought nothing more of it and that is was probably just heatstroke, and we flew home the next evening.
"One of my three sisters is a nurse and she suggested we got to hospital to check it out just to be on the safe side.
"We went to Shrewsbury Hospital and had an MRI scan and got the results back the same day.
"They had found I had a 4cm brain tumour on the left side and I just couldn't believe it, as I had no other real symptoms and felt completely fine.
"I do get a couple of migraines a year, but obviously that can be normal. It just came as such a massive shock.
"You just sort of try and deal with it, I think my parents and sisters were more worried. I stayed in hospital for 4-5 days having anti-seizure tablets before I was allowed home."
Dr Erminia Albanese, a consultant neurologist in Stoke, told Moli her procedure would have to be carried out while she was awake.
"I didn't even really think about it, I just thought do whatever you need to do.
"While I was awake I had to have a translator there to make sure I was repeating words back in Welsh and English correctly.
"There was like this Powerpoint presentation with basic things like animals and food on them - and I had to repeat the words back.
"There was a couple of times I didn't get it right, so they knew that was the part affecting my language and not to interfere there.
"It's mind-blowing what they can do really."
She was left with 28 staples in her head and was kept in for two days before she could return home.
The hospital said it was vital Moli had an interpreter with her so she could talk throughout the surgery and the team could do all the checks to ensure she didn't lose the ability to speak Welsh.
Moli and her mum, Carol, have now presented a cheque for £345 to Ward 228 and members of the UHNM Charity team, which was raised through a carol singing night organised by The Wales Federation of Young Farmers.
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