EXCLUSIVE How Covid actually SAVED an Arizona mom's life - after cancer spread to her brain READ MORE: I discovered 20 tumors in my body after using popular beauty tool By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 12:29, 5 August 2024 | Updated: 12:38, 5 August 2024 e-mail View comments Tena Hughes was planning a safari trip in Africa when she suddenly tested positive for Covid. The infection ruined the vacation of a lifetime - but ended up saving the Arizona native's life.
Unbeknownst to her, she had been suffering from cancer for the past year-and-a-half. The tumors had spread to her brain and were responsible for the ‘skull-crushing' pain she'd put down to migraines. Her positive Covid test was the impetus for her to go get checked by a doctor and she credits the virus as her 'savior'.
Ms Hughes of Phoenix has always been active, loves hiking, and frequently lifts weights. But her cancer ordeal has kept her away from the activities she has always loved After undergoing surgeries to remove the tumors in her brain, Ms Hughes underwent several rounds of radiation on her brain. Then, she began immunotherapy, which shrunk the tumor in her spleen She said: ‘I told [the doctor] about my trip and how I was supposed to go to Uganda to see gorillas, and that’s when he said, you know what, COVID saved your life.
‘He said if you would have gotten on that plane, he said by the time you got to altitude, you would have died.’ Read More Terrifying time.