A Quebec mother is raising funds to have her rare brain tumour removed

A Quebec woman living with a rare brain tumour for almost two decades is crowdfunding surgery expenses because she says the province won't cover the cost of having it removed in the U.S.

A Quebec woman living with a rare brain tumour for almost two decades is crowdfunding surgery expenses because she says the province won't cover the cost of having it removed in the U.S.

Celyn Harding-Jones, a mother of two young children, says she was diagnosed with the tumour, called a colloid cyst, when she was 19.

She says it's been growing for the last 18 years, putting her life at risk every day.

"Usually what happens in terms of progression and growth of a colloid cyst over 60 years…is the same amount of progression that's happened to me in the last five or six years," she said.

Symptoms such as extreme fatigue and memory loss have worsened over the past six years, forcing her to quit her job, she said.

Her deteriorating condition sent her on a journey to find a neurosurgeon who could perform an endoscopic surgery.

"I've seen multiple neurosurgeons. None of them have ever treated a colloid cyst in a surgery setting (…) that's like mine," said Harding-Jones.