Woman Told She Has 15 Years to Live Says ‘Fantastic!’ and Calls It ‘An Entire Second Life’ in Unbelievable Reaction
When 37-year-old Abi Feltham gave up her monster 12-cup-a-day coffee habit, she expected the pounding headaches, nausea, and brain fog that followed. What she didn’t expect was to be told she has brain cancer — and just 15 years left to live.
At first, Abi genuinely thought her body was just throwing a tantrum over the caffeine withdrawal. “I was drinking about 12 coffees a day, then quit cold turkey,” she said. “So naturally, I thought my body was just punishing me for that betrayal.”
But things got weirder — and scarier — when her vision started to go. Her boyfriend Stef had to help guide her around the house like a human Sat Nav. That finally pushed her to the optician. One scan later and alarm bells were ringing — swollen optic nerves meant pressure on the brain. “I wasn’t worried,” Abi said. “Then the doctor said, ‘I’m calling the neuro team,’ and that’s when I knew — ah, crap, this is serious.”
A CT scan confirmed a mass. Days later, she was in surgery. In a moment that could’ve been lifted straight from a dark comedy, the surgeon — who she now calls Dr. Butterfingers — dropped part of her skull on the operating room floor. “He literally told me, ‘Five-second rule, we picked it up and put it back in. You’re on antibiotics, just in case,’” she laughed. “So technically, part of my head has touched a hospital floor. Love that for me.”
The initial procedure drained a cyst and eased her symptoms. For a moment, she hoped that might be the end of it. But two weeks later came the gut punch: the tumour was cancerous, aggressive, and she needed a second surgery — fast. “Dr. Butterfingers told me, ‘I’ll try my hardest not to mess up your left side,’” she recalled. “Not exactly comforting, mate.”
She came out of surgery like a force of nature — discharged in two days, bandaged up, and straight back to powerlifting at the gym. The final diagnosis was a grade 3 oligodendroglioma. It’s incurable. The doctors gave her an estimated 15 years.
“I was expecting five years, so when they said 15, I thought, fantastic! That’s practically an entire second life!” she said. “There was a time when I didn’t care if I lived or died. But now? I’ve built a life worth living. So I’m going to live it.”
Now undergoing chemotherapy, Abi hasn’t lost her sense of humour. “Before I take my Lomustine, Stef and I joke that it sounds like a posh aristocrat’s last name,” she said. “It’s the little things that keep you going.”
She’s only got two rounds of chemo left and is already thinking ahead. “I want to write a book — part memoir, part self-help. If my story can help someone struggling with addiction, depression, or illness, then it’s worth sharing.”
Her message is clear — she’s not wasting a minute. “If I’ve only got 15 years left, I’m going to make them count,” she said. “And if Dr. Butterfingers could not drop any more body parts, that’d be great.”
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