When Gary Mackay, 38, started experiencing ‘drilling’ headaches and bouts of exhaustion, he put it down to his lifestyle as a busy working father.
But after a shock collapse last year, a scan revealed the dad’s issues were actually signs of a grade 2 astrocytoma brain tumour.
Gary, a complaints strategy analyst for Barclays, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, said: ‘Everything started making sense. My mysterious collapse was actually a grand-mal seizure.
‘The pain in my head, sometimes so severe it felt as if…
