How a woman's selfie led to her brain tumor diagnosis

It was a selfie that changed her life. Eight years ago, Megan Troutwine traveled to New York to see her late cousin, Tony Martinez, who lived in Harlem. “We had so much fun! We were just taking pictures and seeing the sites,” the 33-year-old woman from Hudson, Florida, told The Post. “When you have family that lives there, your heart beats differently on those streets,” he said. While in Midtown, the couple visited Rockefeller Center. Troutwine stopped to take a selfie by the nearby pool and Sixth Avenue fountains. “I looked at the picture and my eyelid was drooping,” Troutwine recalled. “I thought it was weird, so when I got home I mentioned it to my neurologist,” she continued. The doctor gave her an MRI and on her way home, after the examination, he informed her by phone. He told her they had found a benign mass inside her brain that was growing […]
Source: News Beast

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