Rollercoaster saved woman's life after bumpy ride led to brain tumour diagnosis
Thorpe Park's Colussus ride didn't agree with Molly White, 21 — but it did reveal to doctors that a mass had been growing in her brain for years
Adam Aspinall
Molly White, 21, from Paignton had no idea she had a brain tumour until she went on a white-knuckle ride at Thorpe Park (Image: SWNS)
A woman's life was saved after a bumpy rollercoaster ride led to the discovery of a brain tumour.
Molly White, 21, had a slight headache after coming off Colossus at Thorpe Park, Surrey, and blamed it on the ride.
But she later found out the movement had shifted a mass in her brain.
Medics said the cancer was growing for years, but was unnoticed as it had not been pressing on parts of the brain that triggered symptoms.
Molly, of Paignton, Devon, will be forever grateful that she made her Thorpe Park visit in April 2016.
The Colossus sends riders into a vertical loop, a cobra roll, a double corkscrew and the UK's only quadruple barrel roll (Image: Alamy Stock Photo)
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She said: "If I hadn't have gone there, who knows when I would have found about the tumour. The rollercoaster saved my life."
She said of her symptoms after the ride: "It was a dull ache for a few minutes.
"When I came off I said, 'That really rattled my brain'. Little did I know, it literally had."
Molly has had surgery and radiotherapy, and had to learn to walk again.
Surgeons were unable to remove part of the tumour, but Molly has had further treatment and is monitored regulary.
She said of the growth: "It's the smallest it has ever been now."
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