Former Home and Away actress Alea O’Shea reveals brain cancer diagnosis at 25

Former Home and Away actress Alea O’Shea has revealed she's been diagnosed with brain cancer after noticing subtle symptoms that suddenly worsened.

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00:00i've recently been diagnosed with brain cancer saying that like a hook is insane it's been a

00:06crazy few weeks i had a biopsy on my birthday and i've just been like waiting for results in a bit

00:11of limbo and now that i finally have some clarity i just want to share what's going on so i'm

00:14choosing to be open and honest about this online because i want to live my life as normally as

00:19possibly while i'm fighting this i know there's gonna be a lot of questions and i'm gonna hit

00:22the basics maybe one day i'll share everything but about six weeks ago i noticed that my smile

00:27was a little uneven and it felt harder to talk like get my words out i had a few migraines but

00:32nothing scary then while i was recently in la i lost feeling in two of my fingers which then crept

00:37into my wrist and then my toe i thought i had a pinched nerve i went and saw my physio who i could

00:42not be more grateful for and he immediately realized it was beyond his scope and sent me to

00:46get a brain scan and that's how we found it so if there's one thing i want anyone to take away from

00:50this video it's advocate for yourself when something feels off even slightly pay attention to it and

00:56find the right professionals who will take you seriously so what does this look like for me

00:59right now i can still walk i can still lift my arm can i flip you off no thumbs up point no or hold

01:06things no but the good news is where it is on my brain isn't going to affect my personality so i'm

01:12still going to be as hilarious and have the gift of the app and then after surgery and treatment might

01:17look like me getting bald and there could be left side paralysis but we have to play it by ear

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