By Ben Barry via SWNS A woman was diagnosed with a brain tumor after blacking out while at home with her three children. Georgie Maynard, 47, was at home with her youngest children - aged 15, 13, and nine - when she blacked out for 20 minutes. Her children called an ambulance and Georgie was taken to hospital.
She had an MRI scan which revealed she had a glioblastoma - a fast-growing brain tumor - and would need a craniotomy to remove some of the mass. Georgie then underwent six weeks of chemotherapy and radiotherapy before having a further six months of chemotherapy. Now, she said she is in the "waiting game" and has to have scans every three months to monitor her tumor.
Georgie, a market research leader, from Appleton, Oxfordshire, said: "It is completely unknown to me why I got diagnosed with a brain tumor. "There is nothing in my life that says you're susceptible to x,y or z - but we don't know why the brain is targeted or how we get it. "In my 20s I lost someone I loved and it makes you look at life differently.
"When I look back at being told that on average I have 18 months to live. "I look at that and think 'bloody hell, I am lucky enough to have double the life they got'. "I would rather look at it like how lucky am I to have got 47 years.
" Georgie was at home with her three youngest children in May 2023. She started to feel unwell with a migraine so sat down on the sofa when she blacked out. Georgie said: "I had a headache so I thought I would sit in the garden and .
