By George Jones

A woman who suffered with deafness and “bouts” of vertigo was told it was actually an undiagnosed brain tumor – and was given just six months left to live.

Glenn Lilley, 73, started experiencing “waves of dizziness” and tinnitus and was assured there was “nothing unusual” by an ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT) after an MRI scan showed “no signs” of a brain tumor.

She was given two hearing aids and thought she would “learn to live” with the vertigo.

But four years later, in July 2021, Glenn “collapsed” at her home in Plymouth and was rushed to hospital, where an MRI revealed a grade 2 meningioma – a brain tumor – and she was given just six months left to live.

Doctors later said that the grape-sized tumor had actually been visible on the MRI scan Glenn had back

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