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A 19-year-old university student died from a brain tumour only two years after feeling faint and 'dizzy' at the dress fitting for her mother's wedding.
Catherine O'Connor from Dartford first noticed something was awry with her daughter during a fitting for her upcoming wedding.
Ellie Watts, 19, began to become dizzy at the occasion in August 2021 - an incident which was later boiled down to a lack of hydration.
'She was almost swaying and said she felt a bit unsteady and had been getting dizzy,' Catherine told Brain Tumour Research.
'At 5ft 3in, and weighing just eight and a half stone, she was tiny and I thought she probably just needed some water.'
Ellie Watts (pictured), 19, first began to feel 'dizzy' and 'unsteady' at the dress fitting for her mother's wedding, which was initially boiled down to dehydration
The 'beautiful' teenager died only two years after the incident after it emerged she was suffering hydrocephalus
But as the 19-year-old continued to feel dizzy and light-headed in the weeks that followed, her mother took her to the GP.
However, when the teenager went for her blood and B12 tests that October, they returned completely normal.
Following another appointment in January, 2022, doctors boiled Ellie's continued dizziness and symptoms to a vitamin D deficiency.
She was instructed to take an antihistamine and drink more water to aid with her light-headedness.
But when Ellie started to experience headaches and violent vomiting 'out of nowhere', she was hurried for further medical tests.
It later emerged the teenager had a grade one pilocytic astrocytoma, which is a non-malignant tumour according to the World Health Organisation.
Although her tumour was non-cancerous, medical tests discovered Ellie was also suffering from hydrocephalus - a build up of fluid in the brain.
Following her diagnosis, the youngster had an seven hour operation to remove the majority of her tumour and was walking - without help - only two days later.
In the span of two months, a resilient Ellie had even returned to her job at John Lewis and enrolled on to a criminology course at the University of Greenwich.
The teenager also had a grade one pilocytic astrocytoma, which is a non-malignant tumour according to the World Health Organisation
Following an initial seven-hour operation, the youngster was up and walking unaided within two hours
Later in July 2023,
