My boy’s had BRAIN SURGERY 10 TIMES

Rusha Harper-Ceylani, 32, Darwin, NT

Holding my newborn, Bertie, in my arms for the first time, weeks of worry melted away.

Towards the end of my pregnancy, doctors had picked up something in a scan that made them think Bertie might have Down syndrome.

Then they thought it was cystic fibrosis, but finally, he’d been diagnosed with an arachnoid cyst in his head.

The rare growth was filled with spinal fluid, and was sitting inside the arachnoid membrane that covers the brain.