“It doesn’t really change me”
Alicia was eight years old when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour, now 16, Alicia talks about how at the time she didn’t really understand the implications of having a brain tumour but now she can look back and realise how scary of a diagnosis it was and how she could have died.
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