July 13th 2023.
Craig had no idea something was wrong until he started experiencing strange symptoms in November of last year. He began to feel a dull headache at the back of his head every morning and he started to take wrong turns on trips he was familiar with. When he tried to hang something in the wardrobe of the spare room, he couldn't remember how to get out. He began to forget things more and more and his wife, Kate, suggested he should go to the doctor.
He went to the GP and after some tests, they found out he was going blind in his lower left eye, but Craig thought it wasn't too serious. A couple of weeks later, they went for a CT scan and the doctors told him he had a cyst, which would need a more in-depth brain scan.
One day, Craig received a call out of the blue from a number he didn't recognise. The woman on the other end of the phone said she was the surgeon's PA and they needed to get his brain tumour out as soon as possible. Craig couldn't believe it; he had no idea what she was talking about.
When he got home, he tearfully told his wife what was happening and she reassured him that he was in the right hands. After further tests, an MRI discovered a tumour in his brain the size of a lime, which had been growing for 15 years. It had been slowly shutting down the nerves, which was why Craig had been going blind.
Kate said it explained a lot of the changes she had seen in Craig over the years, but with the pandemic and Craig getting older, it had been too subtle for them to realise. The doctors said it's not uncommon to have a brain tumour and not know about it, so Craig was blissfully unaware.
When Craig had a meeting with the surgeon, they said that if they didn't get the tumour out, he could have fits, strokes and worse. He said there was a risk of going blind and even dying, but Craig just said “flipping heck” and kept his composure.
Craig was posing for pictures the day after an operation that removed part of his skull. He had been living with his brain tumour when he made the recently released movie, Soundproof. He's been an actor since 2005, appearing in numerous TV shows, soaps, commercials and even starring in a movie. Despite being unaware of his tumour during this time, Craig has worked all over the world and was thankful that he was in the right hands when they found it.
Craig never expected the day he took a wrong turn near his house with his eight-year-old son Teddy to be the start of a long and difficult journey. He had been waking up every morning with a dull headache at the back of his head, but assumed he was just dehydrated or had a virus.
Soon after, he experienced other strange occurrences, such as forgetting how to get out of the smallest room in his house, and forgetting the way and things. He mentioned it to his wife, Kate, who told him to go see a doctor.
Luckily, he did. The GP quickly determined that he was going blind in one eye. This explained why he had been walking into things, something he hadn't noticed due to it happening slowly.
The GP suggested a CT scan, and after a couple of weeks the doctors told him he had a cyst that needed a more in-depth brain scan. Craig assumed it wasn't that serious so he quickly forgot all about it.
That was until he got a call one day from a number he didn't recognize.
The woman on the other end said, “Hello. I’m the surgeon’s PA. We’ve got to get your brain tumour out ASAP.”
Craig couldn't believe what he was hearing, and asked, “What brain tumour?”
It was only when he hung up that it hit him.
When he got home, he tearfully told his wife what was happening. She hugged him, told him it would be alright, and he pulled himself together.
Further tests revealed a tumour in Craig's brain, the size of a lime, that had been there for 15 years. This explained his clumsiness and memory issues, something his wife had noticed but couldn't put her finger on.
The doctors said it was not uncommon to have a brain tumour and not know about it. Craig had been living with it while working as an actor, doing numerous TV shows, soaps, commercials, and even starring in a movie called Soundproof.
Craig was warned of the risks of having the tumour removed: he could go blind, he could die. But he put his head in his hands and said “flipping heck”, and decided to go ahead with it.
The day after his operation, Craig was posing for pictures, thankful that he had made the right decision.
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