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