Former Black Cap Luke Woodcock knew something was seriously wrong late last year when he had trouble catching a cricket ball.
The cricketer-turned-coach started experiencing symptoms in October. It started with chronic fatigue, then came the random vomiting and loss of appetite.
By December his balance and co-ordination went awry, his vision became blurry, and he had a couple of bad falls.
And while doing some coaching at a college cricket tournament he had trouble simply throwing and catching a ball.
"You'd think that I had never played cricket before," Woodcock said.
After another trip to the GP, the 43-year-old was referred to a neurologist. Three MRIs later he received the news on 21 January that he had a large cancerous brain tumour.
Three weeks later, the father of two underwent urgent surgery to try to remove the tumour. The associated risks with the surgery were significant, including the prospect of having to learn to walk again but Woodcock came out of it w
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