JUST A HEADACHE –
March 23, 2026 – A young dad was told he had just days to live after doctors spent a decade dismissing his symptoms. Luke Taylor endured severe headaches for 10 years. They were so bad that he would experience nausea and vomiting for days on end. He went to his general practitioner multiple times but was told that they were “just migraines” and he was a “healthy” young man.
However, Taylor’s condition worsened in July 2025. During another doctor’s visit, he demanded an MRI and that his symptoms be taken seriously.
“I was fed up with my headaches. They were getting worse and worse, I wanted to cry from the pain,” he told Southwest News Service. “They told me I was having really bad migraines, but that didn’t make sense. I was being sick, I was in severe pain, and I said I wanted to have an MRI scan.”
When the scans came back, Taylor was diagnosed with a haemangioblastoma, a rare benign brain tumor typically found in the cerebellum, which is essential for motor control and cognitive function.
“When you get news like that, you go into yourself. Your mind races, you don’t want to speak to anyone, you think your life is done,” he said. “I was 26 when I was diagnosed. I had the rest of my life ahead of me, I have a daughter, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to tell my family.”
