Allana Prosser was just 11 years old when she first
started having daily headaches in 2009.
But it wasn't until earlier this year that it was finally
discovered that she had a tumour called a Craniopharynigioma.
The growth was pushing on Allana's optic nerves and for
some time the 17-year-old from Bedworth near Coventry was unable to even open
her right eye, the Coventry Telegraph reported.
She was in theatre having surgery the very next day after
being diagnosed in May this year and is now set to travel to the States in the
new year to continue her treatment with proton radiotherapy.
The therapy will never completely remove the tumour from
her body, but will stabilise it meaning she can live a normal life.
So Allana has set up a GoFundMe page to raise as much
money as possible before travelling across the Atlantic in January.
On the page, she described how after six years of
constant trips to her GP and being given numerous potential diagnoses and
varying drugs, the extent of her problem was finally revealed this year.
Allana wrote: "On May 21 2015 my opticians finally
and luckily transferred me to the emergency hospital eye clinic which saved my
life.
"Within ten minutes of the specialist doctor seeing
my mum in a state I was having a CT scan and then rapidly I was having an MRI
scan.
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