{"id":174349,"date":"2017-11-06T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=174349"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:01:29","slug":"before-born-brandon-godfrey-saved-mothers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/before-born-brandon-godfrey-saved-mothers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Before he was even born, Brandon Godfrey saved his mother’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lucy Godfrey says her son, Brandon, saved her life… before he was even born. She had an unknown brain tumor that was discovered just in time because she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Lucy became pregnant, she began having strange symptoms, which she mistakenly chalked up to her pregnancy, telling the UK’s Mirror<\/a>, “I started having blank moments where I’d be talking away, driving, doing day to day things, when all of a sudden I’d stop and freeze.” She says her boyfriend (now husband), Dean, “would even tickle my feet, which I hate, to get a reaction or clap his hands in front of my face, but nothing. The episodes lasted about 10 seconds and I had 30-40 a day.” Her family physician thought her symptoms were caused by a virus.<\/p>\n

But things got worse, and one day, she collapsed. Doctors decided to do a scan of Lucy’s brain, but because she was pregnant, they couldn’t do a CT scan, which would have been dangerous for baby Brandon. Instead, they ordered an MRI, which detected her tumor. Lucy says it was unlikely that a CT scan would have revealed it, and therefore, it would not have been discovered as early as it was. “Brandon is my little life saver….\u201cI always tell everyone that my baby saved my life.\u201d A subsequent biopsy\u00a0revealed a low-grade astrocytoma — a slow-growing tumor doctors believed Lucy may have had even since birth.<\/p>\n

Lucy’s first concern was her preborn son. \u201cMy first thought was, \u2018Will I be able to have my baby?\u2019” she told the Mirror.\u00a0<\/u>\u201cI was 14 weeks pregnant and, just a week before, we\u2019d been telling everyone our happy news – now we had to break the news I had a brain tumour.\u201d<\/p>\n