Jack Dow from Aberdeen, began noticing the splitting pains when he was just 15, but the matter started to become unbearable last year
A fit and healthy Scots teenager who suffers from four migraines a day says his life is "at a standstill" due to headaches caused by an egg-sized mass growing inside his skull.
Surgeons told Jack's parents the NHS could not operate on their son without risk of making him blind or causing a stroke. Instead, the teenager will need to travel to the US for specialist treatment, which will cost around £147,000. Recounting his son's diagnosis, dad Willie said: "It was a massive shock to us. He has been an active lad his whole life, he competed in trampolining, gymnastics and diving from a young age and has always been in loads of sports clubs.
"It has changed his life drastically, any sort of sport will raise his blood pressure and he gets drained very easily, even washing his car leaves him knackered. It's devastating, I want him to enjoy his life and live it to its fullest." Willie, 45, added: "They can only give him so much medication and it's still not working, he's basically maxed out on his meds at the moment. If he can't get the surgery, his dreams of becoming a Royal Marine will be blown.
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