The desperate family of a woman diagnosed with brain cancer and given 18-months to live are fundraising in a last-ditch attempt to pay for her lifesaving treatment.
Jeana Watt, 47, mum-of-three and maths teacher at the Skills Academy in Coatbridge, Glasgow, returned home from a chiropractor session and had a seizure on the kitchen floor at the end of June.
Luckily, husband Stephen returned home from work early and found her before she was rushed to hospital.
After her arrival, doctors broke the devastating news Jeana had developed a grade four ultra-aggressive tumour called a glioblastoma, which was latched to her brain.
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Stephen, 42, told the Daily Record the seizure was the first signal that something was wrong.
He said: "I was completely shocked when I saw her on the floor, I had no idea it was so serious.
"She had just been to a chiropractor so my initial thoughts were that, hoping that they hadn't twisted or moved something they shouldn't have.
"But it turned into something even more serious than that, we were all heartbroken to find out it was a glioblastoma as it had not presented itself before.
"Some people when they get it, they notice things like it taking you longer to tie your shoe laces, or take you longer to run a 5k, that sort of thing.
"It is a slow killer, so there was nothing beforehand that led us to believe that Jeana was sick."
Doctors performed a lengthy surgery on July 2 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow and managed to remove almost 100 per cent of the tumour.
Her family thought she was on the route to remission but following radio and chemotherapy treatment at Beatson Cancer Centre, she fell ill and was rushed to hospital for a CT scan.
Scans revealed the tumour had grown back and doctors said this time it was terminal. They gave Jeana just 18-months to live.
Stephen and the couple's three adult children, Danni, Ryan and Liam, were devastated by the news.
"It was shocking, I don't think any of the family stopped crying for about three days afterwards," Stephen, who works in construction, said:
"She is completely irreplaceable to all of us, she's always had a heart of gold and helps so many people through her job as a teacher.
"Jeana is infectious and is the glue that holds our family and extended families together so she would be greatly missed by all of us, especially me and our children.
"If I talk too much about it, I will probably start crying but yeah, she would be irreplaceable.
"She works at Skills Academy, where some of the more disruptive pupils are sent to help them with their maths and English and she acts as a mentor to them so they can go on to achieve what they want.
"For example, boys who want to get into constructions she was helping them to get CSC cards, for girls doing hairdressing she would try and find them placements, so she loves helping people."
The family are planning to pay for urgent lifesaving treatment in Germany, but need to raise £100,000.
Traditional cancer treatments, radio and chemotherapy, are helping to reduce the mass of the tumour but they won't be able to completely eradicate it.
Dr Stefan Van Gool from IOZK clinic in Cologne offers a treatment called Multimodal Immunotherapy, which the family have chosen to pursue.
The procedure helps the body to learn how to keep the tumour under control, and would strengthen Jeana's immune system to a point that it could target new cancer cell growths.
The first two parts of the treatment cost £100,000 and the family hope it will give their beloved wife and mum more than "borrowed time".
Stephen said: "For Glioblastoma, they can do surgery if possible plus radiotherapy and chemotherapy but there is really nothing else they can offer after that.
"If the immunotherapy doesn't go ahead, Jeana will be on borrowed time.
"The idea behind this treatment is that it trains your body's immune systems to recognise and attack the cancer so we are looking for some longevity."
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