How the perils of mountain biking helped me cope with my brain tumour diagnosis | Tracey Croke

Hurtling down trails on two wheels might not be the most obvious way to cope with a life-changing news but for Tracey Croke it helped her find inner peace

It wasn't the news my doctor expected from the scan. I could tell by the look on his face. Most partial hearing loss episodes are caused by infections. I was that rare, one-in-whatever-thousand case in which they'd discovered a squatter - which I now call the thing" - was hanging out in my head.

It's a brain tumour," he said.