EPISODE · Aug 5, 2025 · 22 MIN
When They Don’t Look, They Don’t Find: Beverley’s Story
from After awareness, then what? #CancerCanDoOne. · host Mike Kinnaird - #CancerCanDoOne
Beverley is a mum to Jake, a thirty-something who still lives at home—not because of choice, but because a missed brain tumour diagnosis changed both their lives forever. For months, doctors searched for the wrong answers. Migraines. Epilepsy. Anything but the tumour that was slowly taking hold. Today, Jake lives with seizures. Beverley lives on permanent alert. Every noise. Every bump in the night. Her life is on hold—not from a lack of love, but from a system that didn’t look, so didn’t find. In this episode, Beverley speaks for every parent trapped in the aftermath of a diagnosis that came too late. This isn’t just a story. It’s a warning. #BrainTumourAwareness #DelayedDiagnosis #CancerStories #PatientAdvocacy #SeizureAwareness #WhenTheyDontLookTheyDontFind #InvisibleImpact #CancerCanDoOne #CancerConversation #BreakTheSilence
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When Beverley’s son Jake began having seizures, the diagnosis was always the same: migraines, epilepsy, stress. No one looked for a brain tumour. By the time they found it, life had already changed forever. In this episode, Beverley shares what it’s like to live in the aftermath—where her life is on permanent hold, watching for the next seizure, all because a system failed to look properly. This is not just a story about cancer. It’s a story about every family left picking up the pieces after a delayed diagnosis.
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