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T-Boz reveals brain tumour horror... |
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T-Boz reveals brain tumour horror
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Posted 3 months ago by
Queenoftab
 Tlc star Tionne `T-Boz` Watkins has been battling a brain tumour for the last three years.The hip-hop star, who also suffers from sickle-cell disease, reveals she was diagnosed with a non-cancerous acoustic neuroma in 2006 after years of painful headaches prompted her to seek professional medical treatment. Watkins was sent for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan, and medics discovered she had a tumour the size of a grapefruit on her brain. She tells People magazine, "Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain. By 2006, I`d had headaches for six years. I thought it was stress. But when my vision went blurry, I got an MRI." She underwent a seven-hour operation to remove the growth in November 2006, but she almost didn`t pull through after experiencing complications related to her life-threatening blood disorder. Watkins explains, "When I awoke, I could hear and I looked normal, but then I had a sickle-cell crisis. With the pain meds and steroids, they said I kept flopping and hitting my head. They gave me IV (intravenous) fluids in order to stop it. "After I was released (from hospital) more than a week later, the ride to my Los Angeles apartment was like vertigo to the 10th power. I had to sit up in bed for two months. They propped me up, but I kept sliding down, which made my head swell. It was so painful. At one point, fluid poured out of my nose. "I was readmitted (to hospital). I couldn`t walk or really see. I heard screeching noises. They said, `We may have to cut you open again...` I prayed and the fluid stopped." The setback in her recovery became so bad, Watkins was left unable to speak for months: "In rehab, I had to relearn how to walk and how to say my ABCs." Watkins regained her speech within a year and went on to appear on US TV`s Celebrity Apprentice in March, keeping her diagnosis a secret from her fellow contestants even though she was still a little unsteady on her feet.
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