Jess Giczey (pictured) from Perth after her operation in 2019
A young bride has revealed how she was working at Disneyworld on a six-month overseas holiday when she began to experience strange symptoms that led to a devastating diagnosis.
Jessica Giczey, 24, from Perth, was living out a childhood dream working in America at the 'happiest place on earth' in 2018 as a well-earned break from her master's degree in tax law when her symptoms started.
She thought she was just exhausted.
'I was vomiting, I was tired all the time. My hearing and eyesight started getting really dim, which was probably the scariest part,' Ms Giczey said.
She said at first she assumed the symptoms were because of stress as money was so tight on her $10-an-hour job. She was also feeling homesick.
When she returned to Australia the severity of her symptoms became more pronounced, even as she stepped off the plane.
'You have to sign a [customs] declaration form and my handwriting was atrocious. My coordination was gone. This was the point when [my partner] Kilian started getting really concerned,' she said.
'We walked out the gates and my parents were picking us up, but I couldn't see them – they were right in front of me and I couldn't see them.'
Jess and her partner Kilian (pictured) were married last month and she is participating in a fundraising walk for cancer research this month
Ms Giczey was on a break from studying tax law at university and was working at Disneyworld when she began to feel unwell
The next morning she went and visited her GP assuming she would just be given some antibiotics.
'Kilian came into the appointment with me. My doctor was speaking to me across the desk and he's having to retell it literally straight into my ear.'
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