DAVINA McCall's fellow has fixed a wellness update connected the TV presenter pursuing her large encephalon surgery.
Hairdresser Michael Douglas besides gave immoderate promising quality astir erstwhile the fashionable prima volition instrumentality to work.
The 57-year-old near her fans shocked erstwhile she revealed she would beryllium undergoing a encephalon tumour cognition conscionable implicit a week ago, successful bid to region a "very rare" cyst.
Now, Davina's beloved fellow - who she has been with since 2019 - has fixed fans an update connected however she is doing.
Speaking successful an Instagram Live chat, Michael said: "She's rather bushed atm.
"She sleeps truly good astatine nighttime and goes to furniture astatine 10 and
has nap successful the morning, and sleeps for 2 oregon 3 hours successful the afternoon."
He went on: "It's the mode your encephalon heels is by resting.
"Her assemblage is people forcing her to rest.
Speaking astir erstwhile Davina volition beryllium returning to work, Michael said: "She's disconnected till mid January.
"She's got a batch of clip to unbend and recuperate.
"It's been a precise very affectional and rather an unthinkable experience.
"We're decidedly retired of the woods."
Davina McCall opens up astir immense 14mm tumour 'with obscurity to go' days earlier encephalon country which enactment her successful ICU
Davina was diagnosed with a benign but precise uncommon tumour purely by accidental aft being offered a scan a fewer months ago.
She underwent a gruelling six-hour cognition to region the tumour.
Yesterday, the star shared a marque caller video to her societal media pages arsenic she addressed her country and betterment for the archetypal time.
Davina said: "Hi, I conscionable thought I'd cheque and accidental an tremendous and heartfelt convey you to everybody who's messaged maine oregon been successful touch.
"It's meant the world. It's been mad. And it's conscionable truly nice to beryllium backmost home, I'm connected the different side.
"My short-term representation is simply a spot remiss. But that's thing I tin enactment on.
"I'm penning down everything I'm doing to support myself feeling harmless and I'm being brilliantly looked aft by Michael and my mum.
"I'm connected the mend, I'm resting, I'm sleeping loads, I consciousness truly bully -and precise lucky.
"When thing happens similar this, I consciousness truthful grateful. I've ever been grateful.
"I've been truly fortunate successful my beingness but I consciousness unbelievably grateful close now."
Davina had said the 14mm maturation was a uncommon colloid cyst, with a “three successful a million” accidental of having one.
Symptoms of a benign encephalon tumour
A benign encephalon tumour is simply a wide of cells that grows comparatively dilatory successful the brain.
Benign means it successful not cancerous.
Non-cancerous encephalon tumours thin to enactment successful 1 spot and bash not spread.
Some slow-growing tumours whitethorn not origin immoderate symptoms astatine first.
When symptoms occur, it's due to the fact that the tumour is putting unit connected the encephalon and preventing a circumstantial country of the encephalon from moving properly.
As the tumour grows and increases unit successful the skull, you mightiness experience:
- New, persistent headaches that are sometimes worse successful the greeting oregon erstwhile bending implicit oregon coughing
- Feeling sick each the time
- Drowsiness
- Vision problems, specified as blurred oregon treble vision, nonaccomplishment of portion of your ocular tract and impermanent imaginativeness loss
- Epileptic seizures that whitethorn impact the full body, oregon you whitethorn conscionable person a twitch successful 1 area
See a GP if you make immoderate of these symptoms.
They'll analyse you and inquire astir your symptoms.
If they fishy you whitethorn person a tumour oregon are not definite what's causing your symptoms, they whitethorn notation you to a encephalon and nervus specializer for further investigation.
Source: NHS
NHS guidelines suggest it tin instrumentality six weeks for a afloat recovery.
Experts accidental much radical are being diagnosed with Davina’s highly uncommon encephalon tumour benignant owed to advances successful testing.
Brain Tumour Research said the 3 successful a cardinal radical recovered with a colloid cyst each twelvemonth is rising acknowledgment to MRI and CT scans.
Colloid cysts signifier successful the embryo and spell unnoticed until symptoms specified arsenic representation nonaccomplishment oregon headaches statesman to show.
Continued maturation tin origin a physique up of fluid successful the brain, which tin beryllium life-threatening and requires urgent surgery.
Brain Tumour Research brag Dr Karen Noble said: “Colloid cysts are thought to beryllium rare, with astir 255 radical successful the UK diagnosed each year.
“Diagnosis is expanding owed to wide usage of MRI and CT scans, arsenic successful Davina’s case.”
She added: “Early diagnosis is cardinal to a affirmative semipermanent prognosis.”