East Sussex brain tumour patient calls on Government to fund more research into disease

Chantelle Perrault, of Hastings, was diagnosed with a grade 3 glioma type brain tumour after waking to seizures last month.

The 25-year-old went to hospital twice, following full-body seizures which left her unconscious, but was turned away without any scans both times.

Frustrated, she sought a consultation with a private neurologist and has now undergone private treatment, paid for in part using crowdfunding donations. She is currently waiting to start radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Chantelle has also been forced to put Team Player Recruitment, the recruitment company she had set up just a month before being struck ill, on hold.

She said: “For six years I’d worked in recruitment in London but I left about a month before everything happened to start my own recruitment company with my dad.

“We were doing well, we’d done our first few placements of people and brought on quite a few clients. It was just starting to kick-off when we were forced to put it on hold because of my treatment.”

Chantelle’s first symptom was a twitch in her left leg, which she ignored for two weeks after attributing it to her first session with a personal trainer.

She said: “I went out to celebrate putting a deposit on an office building and woke up around 3am to find the twitch I had been experiencing had turned into a full leg jerk. I shouted out for my dad, then had a fit and fell unconscious for several minutes.”

Chantelle was rushed to hospital but sent home and told to wait for the fit clinic to get in touch.

She said: “I thought maybe it was related to having alcohol the night before but then two days later it happened again. I woke up with a leg jerk at 6am and had another full seizure.