An athlete who was diagnosed with a brain tumor after a seizure in his sleep had to relearn how to walk again - and is training to become the world's best pickleball player.
Nicholas Wade, 27, was asleep when he had a seizure in the middle of the night. Luckily, his wife, Beah Wade, 26, is a nurse and called an ambulance straight away. Nicholas woke up in the hospital and said he had to pinch himself to check it wasn’t a dream. Doctors sent him for an MRI scan to see what had caused the seizure. The results came back showing a mass on the brain, and Nicholas was sent for an operation to remove it.
A biopsy revealed that Nicholas had a benign glioneuronal tumor - a group of rare brain tumors that contain a mixture of both nerve cells and glial cells, which doctors said had been there since birth. After the operation, Nicholas had to relearn how to walk and is currently battling to become the world’s number one pickleball player. Nicholas, a pickleball player and coach from Upminster, Essex, now living in Boise, Idaho, said: “I didn’t have any symptoms at all before the seizure.
“I felt the fittest I have ever felt in my whole life. I was training for a tournament that week. I had zero symptoms. I went to sleep one night and had a seizure in my sleep. Luckily, my wife is a nurse. She realized it was a seizure and called the ambulance to take me straight to the hospital.”
Nicholas said he was the fittest he had ever been the week he had a seizure and was training for a pickleball tournament.
Source: https://www.voiceofalexandria.com/entertainment/health/man-who-couldn-t-walk-after-brain-tumor-surgery-chasing-pickleball-dream/article_0ca40d01-1890-5c5a-903c-88020ecd0fef.html