A mom of five said a tingling sensation in her foot that doctors initially linked to an old rock climbing injury turned out to be a symptom of an aggressive and incurable brain tumor.

Bryony Hill of Selston, England, said her health issues began in September 2025, when she visited her doctor after experiencing frequent headaches and noticing what she described as bumps on her head, according to Kennedy News and Media.

“I went to the doctors last year and I had quite a few headaches and I just went and spoke about that and I did mention while I was there that I felt like I had a lumpy skull,” Hill, 40, said. “I mentioned it to my doctor at the time and he prescribed me some medication because I was having migraines.”

The following month, Hill began experiencing severe pain in her right ankle, which she had broken while rock climbing 18 years earlier and still has screws in.

“I randomly had a really bad pain on my ankle and I couldn’t walk on it, so I went to the [ER],” she recalled.

According to Hill, the emergency room staff dismissed the issue as nothing serious.

“They just thought it was tendonitis and they were like, ‘Oh well have some crutches, take some medicine — but we can’t really see any problems,’ ” she said.

However, several months later in 2026, Hill noticed a new symptom: a persistent tingling sensation in her right foot.

“It was April this year I got a tingling in my foot,” she said. “It just started to feel tingly.”

Hill says the sensation progressed, eventually traveling farther up the right side of her body.

“The tingling was just getting worse and I mentioned [to doctors] that I’d got a previous fracture, I’d been treated for tendonitis,” she said. “The doctor decided to book me in for an MRI.”

While she waited for the scan, Hill says the numbness became so severe that it began interfering with everyday activities.

“If I dropped something on the floor, I wouldn’t be able to feel it because all I was getting was pins and needles,” she explained. “It was just getting worse and further up my body. It got to a point where I had to stop driving for safety reasons because I was like, ‘I can’t feel my leg.’ ”

Hill was still awaiting the MRI when her husband, James, planned a getaway for the couple to celebrate her 40th birthday in May. But they never made the trip.

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“We were going to go the next day so on May 21 I went to bed that night,” Hill recalled. “I woke up in the early hours to ambulance men around my head and I was coming in and out of consciousness because I had no idea what had happened, and I had had a seizure.”

An emergency MRI revealed that Hill had a brain tumor.

The stay-at-home mom said doctors initially believed it was a grade 2 tumor, but a subsequent biopsy determined that she had stage 4 glioblastoma — a form of aggressive brain cancer that is often especially difficult to treat.

Worse yet, doctors told her that the tumor was inoperable and had spread to multiple parts of her brain.

“It just happened so fast,” she added.

Hill said that the diagnosis has been especially devastating given that she’s a mom.

“There’s just so much I can’t do, even just playing with my daughter,” she said. “I can’t get up and run to her.”

Hill’s family has since created a verified GoFundMe in hopes of raising money for additional treatment options abroad that they believe could give her more time with her children.

“My husband is on the internet every day trying to find anything and everything that can prolong life as much as possible,” Hill said.

“I’ve got five children that I’ll be leaving behind,” she continued. “Time is very precious — any extra time is huge.”

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