![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/heartbroken-dads-warning-as-wife-who-thought-she-had-baby-brain-dies-from-cancer/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_SWNS_ANNEKA_JOHNSTONE_006.jpg&description=Anneka Johnstone, 33, died a year after she gave birth to her daughter Sienna of cancer, after initially being told she had the herpes virus and was sent home with antibiotics A heartbroken dad whose wife died from cancer after thinking her dizziness was "baby brain" and then being told she had herpes has shared a warning. Anneka Johnstone died at the age of 33, a year after welcoming her daughter Sienna into the world . She initially dismissed her dizzy spells as 'baby brain' until she fell ill while holding her six-month-old daughter. She was rushed to hospital when she began dragging her feet but was told she had the herpes virus and sent home with antibiotics. A week later the couple's world fell apart when Anneka was officially diagnosed with a glioblastoma grade IV - a malignant brain tumour - and she passed away just six months later in November 2019. Alan, 38, from Dumfries, is now set to front the BBC Lifeline Appeal to raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity later this month. He told the Daily Record : "Watching Anneka go through what she went through was so horrific. To think what it must have been like for her. Not seeing our daughter grow up and be the amazing mum to Sienna that she would have been, gives me nightmares. That's all she wanted to do. 'It has been a tough road for me - going from a close-knit family to being single with a 13-month-old. Sienna gave me a totally different focus, she is my number one. I give her as much love as I can give her - she is the reason I get up in the morning." The couple met as childhood sweethearts when he was 18 and they later married in 2015. After welcoming their first child in 2018, the family were left reeling by Anneka's shock diagnosis the following year. Medical technician Alan added: 'It hit us all like a tonne of bricks. Anneka wanted to see her daughter grow up. After being told the news, we drove back to tell the family. "The first person Anneka saw when she walked through the door was Sienna - she co){kind=link}
Anneka Johnstone, 33, died a year after she gave birth to her daughter Sienna of cancer, after initially being told she had the herpes virus and was sent home with antibiotics
A heartbroken dad whose wife died from cancer after thinking her dizziness was “baby brain” and then being told she had herpes has shared a warning.
Anneka Johnstone died at the age of 33, a year after welcoming her daughter Sienna into the world . She initially dismissed her dizzy spells as ‘baby brain’ until she fell ill while holding her six-month-old daughter.
She was rushed to hospital when she began dragging her feet but was told she had the herpes virus and sent home with antibiotics. A week later the couple’s world fell apart when Anneka was officially diagnosed with a glioblastoma grade IV – a malignant brain tumour – and she passed away just six months later in November 2019.
Alan, 38, from Dumfries, is now set to front the BBC Lifeline Appeal to raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity later this month. He told the Daily Record : “Watching Anneka go through what she went through was so horrific. To think what it must have been like for her. Not seeing our daughter grow up and be the amazing mum to Sienna that she would have been, gives me nightmares. That’s all she wanted to do.