Almost two years after she began having migraines, blurry vision and facial numbness, she found out she had an acoustic neuroma — a type of brain tumour — and it had grown to three centimetres in diameter.
“I was like, ‘oh my God.’ Then it really kind of hit me,” she said in an interview with The St. John’s Morning Show.
Now, the St. John’s chiropractor and mother of three is facing major brain surgery, which she believes could have been avoided if she had been able to get an MRI when her symptoms first developed almost two years ago.
Unfortunately, healthcare is a provincial thing, and different regions have better or worse healthcare.
Worst I ever had was in Winnipeg. After a traffic accident we were in the ER for 8 hours and it sounded like it was going to be another 4 hours. We left, going “Well, if we were going to die we would have already”
Unfortunately, newfoundland is a have-not province so I can absolutely imagine it taking forever to get an MRI. On the other hand, there’s regions that are ok. My wife got an MRI the same day when she ended up in the hospital over something. I know another guy with a similar story as the above and found out he had a tumor in a few hours.