{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":" 'Nobody Listened': They Missed the Tumour That Took My Sight","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/637edd2f571c7c0011b83a32/1763524795257-2d32e756-f52f-40b4-ab6f-e83695c3c402.jpeg?height=200","description":"

At 17, Mitch Wilson thought he was just an exhausted teenager.


But dizziness, daily vomiting, and excruciating headaches escalated into something far more sinister: a brain tumour that went undiagnosed for over a year due to medical neglect. The delay cost him most of his eyesight… but not his spirit.


In this conversation, Mitch opens up about:


The terror of going to sleep wondering if he’d wake up completely in the dark


The angry, self-destructive years that followed


How a German shepherd called Blaze and para-cycling helped pull him back


Grief, therapy, purpose, and trying to figure out what life looks like now.


Now a world-class para-cyclist and newly married, Mitch is still figuring out what life looks like in the long term.


This is a story of survival, identity, sport, grief, love, and the stubborn refusal to give up. And it is one of those episodes that will stay with you.


","author_name":"Dom Harvey"}