Teacher Jeana diagnosed with terminal brain cancer after a seizure at home
She is trying to raise £100,000 for treatment in Cologne
A TEACHER found out she had terminal brain cancer after her husband found her having a seizure on their kitchen floor.
Jeana Watt, 47, had just come back from the chiropractor and was getting ready for her second Covid jab when she collapsed.
Her husband Stephen had returned home from work early to find her having convulsions on the kitchen floor of their home in Motherwell.
She was rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with Grade 4 glioblastoma, a fastgrowing brain tumour, and later given 18 months to live.
Stephen, 42, told the Record that his wife had been fit and active before her collapse on June 23. He said: “I was completely shocked when I saw her.
“She had just been to a chiropractor so my initial thoughts were that, hoping that they hadn’t twisted or moved something they shouldn’t have.
“But it turned into something even more serious. We were all heartbroken to find out it was a glioblastoma as it had not presented itself before.
“Some people when they get it, they notice things like it taking you longer to tie your shoe laces, or take you longer to run a 5k, that sort of thing.
“It is a slow killer, so there was nothing beforehand that led us to believe that Jeana was sick.”
Jeana, a maths teacher at the Skills Academy in Coatbridge, had lengthy surgery at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on July 2 to remove almost all of the tumour.
However, after she began radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the Beatson Cancer Centre, she became seriously ill again.
A CT scan found the tumour had regrown in her brain. Doctors gave her 18 months to live.
The news devastated Stephen and the couple’s three grown-up children Danni, Ryan and Liam.
Stephen, who works in construction, said: “It was shocking, I don’t think any of the family stopped crying for about three days.
“She is irreplaceable to all of us, she’s always had a heart of gold and helps so many people through her job as a teacher.
“Jeana is the glue that holds our family and extended families together.”
Jeana is on a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and the family are trying to raise £100,000 to pay for multimodal immunotherapy at the IOZK clinic in Cologne, Germany, in a bid to lengthen her life.
Stephen added: “If the immunotherapy doesn’t go ahead, Jeana will be on borrowed time.”