Josh High doesn’t remember much about the day doctors discovered he had brain cancer.

The 28-year-old landscaper from Ipswich went to work in the morning but came home early feeling unwell. When he woke a few hours later, he started seizing.

“My fiancee called the ambulance, and they took me to hospital … I was out of it for about three days,” High says.

Father-of-two Josh High was only 27-years-old when he learned he had brain cancer. Credit: Courtney Kruk

A CT scan confirmed a prognosis neither was expecting: the young father-of-two had oligodendroglioma, a rare type of brain cancer.

“The doctors said it had potentially been developing for a decade,” he says.

The seizure happened in March. High had brain surgery at the Princess Alexandra Hospital to remove as much of the tumour

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