Mum's warning after daughter's diagnosis took four weeks
An Adelaide mother has told parents to trust their instincts after it took four weeks for her daughter to be diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Elsie, who was meant to start pre-school this week, is now in the hands of the Women's and Children's Hospital after receiving a diagnosis that she has a brain tumour.
The four-year-old's symptoms started on Anzac Day when she began vomiting on a daily basis.
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Elsie, who was meant to start pre-school this week, is now in the hands of the Women's and Children's Hospital after receiving a diagnosis that she has a brain tumour. Supplied
Her mother, Emily Kroschel, said three Barossa GPs were unable to work out why.
It wasn't until May that her sickness escalated, on the same day Elsie walked down the aisle as a flower girl at a family wedding.
Kroschel took Elsie to the Women's and Children's Hospital, where a CT scan discovered the tumour.
"I believe it was about the size of a golf ball in her tiny little head," Emily said.
"Now we're in this nightmare, it was the biggest crash down to earth I think I've ever had," godmother Jemma Leigh said.
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Emily is telling her daughter's story to highlight just how unpredictable a cancer diagnosis can be. 9News
Kroschel is telling her daughter's story to highlight just how unpredictable a cancer diagnosis can be.
She also wants to underscore the importance of going to a hospital when a GP can't provide answers.
About 98 per cent of the tumour was removed.
Specialists at the hospital said Elsie came in at the right time.
"The longer the tumour is left and the diagnosis is delayed, the more risky the surgery would be," paediatric neurosurgeon Associate Professor Amal Abou-Hamden said.
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