A MUM who was told her intense headaches and blurred vision were likely stress-related died just one week after having a miscarriage. Olivia Harlow, 25, was found by her partner Ryan in her room unresponsive days after she had lost her daughter, Adeline. The "fit and healthy" mum-of-one was rushed to the hospital where doctors found tumours all over her brain .
Her family were then forced to make the heartbreaking decision to turn off life support on June 24. A few weeks earlier, when Olivia was 34 weeks pregnant, she went to Royal Brisbane Hospital suffering headaches and blurred vision . She was told to go home and rest after tests came back clear.
Stefanie Harlow, Olivia's sister-in-law, said two weeks later, the mum-to-be realised Adeline wasn't moving and rushed back to hospital on June 16. "They did a scan, bub had passed away," Ms Harlow told Daily Mail Australia . After giving birth to baby Adeline, Olivia stayed in the hospital for a few nights before she was given a "full bill of health" and discharged.
However, just days later, she returned to the hospital and told doctors she still wasn't feeling well and was suffering intense headaches. The doctors looked at scans they had done two weeks earlier and said there was no need for further tests, the sister-in-law explained. "They said she was probably still stressed from what she had gone through and pretty much sent her on her way," she added.
A brain tumour is a mass, or lump in the brain which is caused when brain .
