LAURA FORDE has revealed that she was planning for her “own funeral” after being told she had an inoperable brain tumour – before a kind intervention from Ryan Reynolds.
Laura is the wife of Wrexham star Anthony Forde and was diagnosed with a tumour halfway through last season.
Wrexham co-owner and Hollywood star Reynolds reached out to the couple after they were told the devasting news.
Laura noticed that something was wrong just three days after giving birth as she felt her co-ordination was “off”.
An MRI scan found a mass that Laura and Forde were told was inoperable and that her life expectancy would be shortened.
Laura has admitted that she was left planning her own funeral and that life had become a “nightmare”.
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She told the Sunday Times: “The neurologist told us it was inoperable and you have a timeline.
“We said then we didn’t want to know how long. Paddy was four weeks old and I am being told basically that I may not see my son turn a year old.
“No word of a lie, I was planning my funeral as I was doing those night feeds. I was crying silently. It was a really low time. A living nightmare.
“It was a very low time. In the first few months after giving birth, a woman is severely all over the place hormonally, not to mind getting this landed on me. Emotionally, it was just a roller coaster.
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“I was initially in shock and disbelief. I was in such a vulnerable place that I felt I should be happier about this, but I had just been through the worst seven weeks imaginable with my newborn baby.”
The couple were helped by Reynolds however as he helped them to seek a second opinion.
A neurologist in New York believed that the mass was actually a grade 1 Thalamic pilocytic astrocytoma after a biopsy.
This is a benign brain tumour and would be a lot less dangerous than the original prognosis.
In September, Laura also revealed that there had been no growth in the tumour.
However, she has been left with a headache after a screw was left in her head after her biopsy.
She wrote on Instagram: “I wanted my wound checked as I felt like something wasn’t right with it. I was convinced I could feel something.
“To my horror I was told there was a screw left behind from the biopsy. Wtf?! How?!
“I’m now left with the options to either get it removed (more surgery) or leave it there?!”
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The Fordes’ struggles have featured in the Welcome to Wrexham documentary, but they have no diubt that the two Hollywood stars weren;t after god publicity.
Forde said: “They are such normal people and there is not a chance that they would do this for publicity. They don’t need it. I remember saying to Ryan ‘I can’t thank you enough’ and he said, ‘People have helped me too.’”
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