The accident that saved my life: they discovered a brain tumor through a routine examination after a shock

Are there any accidents that save lives? Drew Gunby thinks so.

For the young man from Texas, having a car accident was an opportunity to to treat a malignant brain tumor in time.

Has attracted He fired from the back of a van in front of a road accident while he was 15 years old. He was taken to the emergency room to receive chin stitches for injuries and proper care.

"It was the worst pain of my life, my chin was burning"said Gunby, now 21, on YouTube.

"After five minutes of driving, the driver lost control of his car and started driving from right to left at just over 80 km / h and crashed against a fence. I flew from the back to the front seatshe recalled.

"The windshield was completely destroyed, just like the car. I cut my chin and they took me to the hospital to receive stitches. I was the only pbadenger to need medical care, "he added.

After the nurses gave him stitches, he underwent a tomography to rule out any internal damage. they found a 5.5 cm tumor in the brain I had at least two years there.

Thanks to the "stroke of luck" of Gunby, the doctors were able to remove the tumor without any recoil, so that he could live normally.

"If I did not have this accident, the tumor would have evolved a long time without symptoms"he said.

"It's something that I still treat mentally and emotionally to this day.. Since that day, I do not take anything for granted. "

Brain tumors are clbadified from level 1 to level 4. Categories 1 and 2 are not carcinogenic and develop slowly. Between 3 and 4 are malignant, grow faster and are difficult to treat.

Tumors develop without primary symptoms and spread to the brain.

Some of the symptoms are headache, convulsions, discomfort and vomiting, memory problems or personality changes, weakness, vision problems and sentence articulation.

Treatments to combat them include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, although sometimes they can come back

According to the Cancer Research Institute of the United Kingdom, the survival rate in malignant tumors is about 15% after diagnosis.

On January 30, Drew "commemorated" the sixth anniversary of the operation that released him from cancer.

"I achieved several personal goals and it completely changed my vision of lifehe wrote in his Facebook account.

"Fucking is a cancer!"he concluded.