A family knew something was seriously wrong with a dad when he lost the ability to speak after having a seizure. Joanne Ainslie, from Lymington, knew something has wrong with her husband, Craig, when he lost his speech after having a seizure.

The dad was diagnosed with oligodendroglioma, a type of brain tumour, before losing mobility on one side of his body. Craig started two different chemotherapies and radiotherapy but had complications.

Joanne said: “We knew something was wrong when Craig had a seizure and lost his speech. He had to communicate through cards with words and phrases written on them. Shortly after, he lost mobility on one side.

"After two different chemotherapies he started radiotherapy, but he had complications including laboured breathing which turned out to be a pulm

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