How the perils of mountain biking helped me cope with my brain tumour diagnosis | Tracey Croke

Hurtling down trails on two wheels might not be the most obvious way to cope with a life-changing news but forTracey Croke it helped her find inner peaceIt wasn ’t the news my doctor expected from the scan. I could tell by the look on his face. Most partial hearing loss episodes are caused by infections. I was that rare, one-in-whatever-thousand case in which they’d discovered a squatter – which I now call “the thing” – was hanging out in my hea d.“It’s a brain tumour,” he said.Continue reading...
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