'My husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour while I was pregnant - Kelsey Parker inspires me every day'
It's a year ago now, on 30 March, 2022, that The Wanted’s Tom Parker passed away, aged 33, after battling an aggressive brain tumour. He was diagnosed while his wife Kelsey, already mum to daughter Aurelia, was expecting their second child, a son called Bodhi.
It passed quickly and a doctor at a nearby hospital diagnosed acid reflux. But a few days later, back in the UK, Robert collapsed on the bedroom floor.At the hospital, doctors ordered a CT scan and MRI. But Robert shook his head. “I’m not having an operation until our baby is born,” he told me. “I want to support you. I want to be there for the birth.”I was due in February 2020 so his surgery was booked for March. I went from midwife appointments to brain scans. We’d been so excited and now all the joy was gone.
But back home, life was very difficult. I was exhausted trying to look after both a newborn and Robert. Then we got more bad news. Covid struck and the country went into lockdown. Robert’s operation was cancelled. When he came home, he had months of speech therapy to help him talk again. Thankfully, Amelia kept his spirits up.
But throughout, he kept getting bad headaches. His doctors told me, “Brain tumours don’t cause headaches.” But he started becoming confused, too. “He doesn’t know who the prime minister is or the day of the week. And he looks grey,” I protested.Two days later, in May 2021, Robert had emergency surgery. It hadn’t even been a year since his diagnosis. But this time the tumour type had changed.
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