A 15-Year-old Child A Headache at School But Real Reason Was Far WorsE-Brain Tumor Calum Stone: Family expectations and struggles

Think how it would feel when your child laughs suddenly falls ill? That too, which you initially consider a minor disease, actually shows his truth to death? Of course, the heart of any parent will tremble. One such case came up in the Chelmsford of the United Kingdom. One day of 15 -year -old Callum Stone, living there, started having a headache in school. The housemates reached the school to pick up the child. He felt that it would be a minor disease, but he saw that the child could not even speak. In such a situation, the parents came to show that child in the hospital. There he came to know about such truth, which slipped the ground under his feet. This headache was not a minor disease, but rare cancer like a brain tumor, whose operation is also not possible. Callum, who lives with his mother Sarah Ferris, step father Mark Ferris and younger brother William Stone in Callum, Essex, Sarah Ferris, step father Mark Ferris and younger brother William Stone.

Please tell that Callum, who specializes in sports, used to go to school every day by bicycle. On January 20, 2025, a call from Calum’s school received a call that he was taken to the medical room due to a headache and someone came to pick him up. When his stepfather Mark reached school to take Callum, he saw that he could not speak properly. He told Mark loudly that he loves him, but his words were somewhat strange. Mark sent him to the emergency ward of Bromfield Hospital in Chemsfield without losing time. On the way, Callum got three tours, which scared everyone. Callum was kept in the hospital for a week. There the doctors conducted many tests like Lumber Puncture, CT scan and MRI. Initially it felt that it is probably a viral infection, because the test showed mild swelling in the brain. Sara was a little relaxed when Callum was sent home with medicines to stop the tour. They felt that everything would be alright now. But this relief did not last long. He had to be admitted to the hospital again.

Later, due to the young age of Calum, his treatment began at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. Another MRI found there that Callum has a big tumor in his mind. On February 5, a biopsy of the tumor took place and on February 11, the family was told that this grade four defuse Grade is four glioma, a kind of cancerous tumor that begins in the brain. This tumor was spreading like a net, due to which the operation was not possible. Hearing this, the ground slipped under the feet of the family of Callum. Later, he told this to Calum at home. Sara said that after hearing this news, her whole family broke. Till a few months ago, he was a common family, but now everything had changed. Mark said that Callum worried about his family after hearing this news and smiled and hugged him. His courage surprised everyone.

On 14 February, the family went to the University College Hospital, London, where the treatment of Callum began. From 24 February, he was given daily radiotherapy for six weeks, which ended on 4 April. Now on May 5, he will have an MRI scan, which will reveal what was the effect of treatment on the tumor. Sara told that Callum, who has never been ill before, is now taking a lot of medicines and spending time in the hospital. The family was told that there is no other cure for Callum in the National Health Service, NHS of Britain. In such a situation, he created a gofundme page for alternative treatment of cancer abroad. Mark said that so far more than 50,000 pounds (about 50 lakh rupees) have been deposited. The family is now looking for a better treatment for Calum with full hope, so that he can live his old life again.