“After I gave birth, it actually started to recover, so I was quite devastated when I woke from surgery with it worse than it was.” Moore’s second surgery left her with permanent hearing loss in her left ear and facial paralysis. “The hearing loss I knew was likely permanent, and the facial paralysis I just hoped was temporary. “I was pretty concerned and upset,” she says. It resulted in the left side of Katrina’s face being “stuck with permanent paralysis” and the loss of hearing in her left ear. Unfortuantley, they were unable to remove the whole thing without damaging her facial nerves. Three weeks after welcoming her little man, the mum went back into the operating room with doctors again attempting to remove the tumour. “He was a big blessing in all of the mess.” Life-altering surgery “It was incredible,” Katrina says, adding she was under general anaesthetic for the procedure. Credit: SuppliedĪt 36 weeks, Katrina and Tom welcomed their little boy, Carter, via cesarean on the July 1, 2022. “I surprisingly still really enjoyed the pregnancy, I loved every step of it, even though I had a world of trouble on top of all normal pregnancy issues.” Carter was welcomed in July 2022 via a cesarean. “Every time I spoke to the surgeon she would calm me down, and I’d be okay again. “I was definitely scared, there was definitely quite a few days of tears and stress,” she says. “Just before 30 weeks, I had to go on maternity leave early because I couldn’t drive.”Īdding to the list of symptoms, Katrina began to experience paralysis on the left side of her face - something caused by the tumour wrapping its way around her facial nerves. “(My) face kept getting more numb, I was getting a bit dizzy, I started to lose hearing in my left ear,” she recounts. Katrina was told to monitor, but as the pregnancy progressed, so did her symptoms. Moore began to experience symptoms again and was told to monitor. They found that the mass had slightly grown, but her doctor “wasn’t too concerned” as they were expecting this to occur. She wasn’t taking any chances and booked in to see her surgeon. “I pretty much instantly felt that it was the tumour,” she recalls. The mum-to-be started to feel “numb” and “tingling” in her face. Katrina was 14 weeks along when she began to experience her symptoms returning. “It was just excitement and disbelief.” Symptoms return “I ran in and threw the test at (Tom) and we both kind of stood there and stared at it, and he was like ‘are you serious?’. “I was actually running late for work when (I) did the test, so we didn’t have a lot of time,” she recalls. So, she followed their advice and purchased a pregnancy test to do the next morning. “I kind of ignored it all until the girls at my work were like ‘you need to go and take a test’.” Moore was in disbelief as she looked down at the positive pregnancy test. “I had a few symptoms, but I just put it down to poor health. “I didn’t believe it, it took me weeks to really comprehend that I actually was pregnant,” she says. Six months after the couple stopped trying, Katrina received the shock of her life - she had naturally fallen pregnant. “It was just another hurdle we needed to wait out!” Moore and Tom received uplifting news when they discovered they were expecting. “We were disheartened but also knew it wasn’t a definite no to babies,” she says, However, they were told to put their dreams of becoming parents on hold. With this news, however, Katrina and her husband Tom received another blow.įor the three years leading up to the shock discovery, the couple had been trying to conceive, turning to IVF to make their dreams come true.
“(The surgeon) said ‘it’s slow growing, it should be fine with that little bit left, you could just go on living life’,” she recalls. With a small portion of the tumour left behind, doctors planned to reassess whether a second surgery was required.
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