Claudia’s Brain Tumour Fund

We need more awareness of symptoms for patients, family & medical staff. Unfortunately being something that myself & others have experienced and continually live in fear of. Brain tumour funds for research is also needed as brain tumours only receive 1% of overall cancer funding.. ✨ Whilst raising money around my specific tumour, I also want to do this to promote DOING MORE in general. To support, love, and help humanity. So please join me in DOING MORE ❤️☮️ 

Hi guys, this is my short story written in the eyes of my big sister Courtney Laird. This is why I continue to fundraise and raise awareness to try and stop these tragic diseases that are ruining the lives of many.

My hero, Claudia laird.

Christmas 2021 she started getting horrific migraines and dizziness, which then led to disorientation and losing feelings in her hands and arms. She was hallucinating, loosing her sense of direction, having blurred vision, suffering from memory loss and struggling to make sense of things at times (e.g. walking into windows thinking they were doors). Doctors didn’t believe her and she was sent home from A&E multiple times, she requested a brain scan and the doctors said she didn’t qualify and that they ‘didn’t give brain scans to 24 year olds Willy nilly’.

However, she kept persisting and finally managed to get a brain scan in which the doctors discovered a huge brain tumour pushing down on the right side of her brain which needed urgent care and she underwent 8 hour emergency neurosurgery to save her life and remove the cancerous tumour.

This was January 2022 and since then Claudia has been incredibly strong - going straight back to university where she is training to be a paediatric nurse, and raising money for brain tumour charities.

I have since done 10k steps a day in March 2022, ran a fundraising event in January 2023 and now being brain tumour awareness month taking part in the twilight walk in London with The Brain Tumour Charity!