By Josh Harris

A woman who believed she was suffering from panic attacks and anxiety discovered she had an incurable brain tumor .

Kim Wilson, 37, was unable to speak properly and was disorientated when she crashed her car six years ago - but assumed she'd had a panic attack.

Over the next three years, she experienced memory lapses, speech problems, and anxiety-like episodes, all of which were misattributed to mental health challenges.

But when Kim collapsed during a work call she was taken to West Cumberland Hospital told she had experienced two tonic-

An MRI at Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle confirmed she had a brain tumor and Kim underwent an eight-hour emergency brain surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible.

She was later told the tumor was a grade 3 astrocyto

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