Johnny Ruffo's inspiring health update on brain tumour diagnosis
Aussie actor Johnny Ruffo has shared an update of his progress on Instagram, following his tumour treatment.
The former Home & Away star, who was diagnosed with cancer last August, has talked about how he is doing in the “most difficult of times”.
“Positive thinking can change your entire outlook on life, even through the most difficult of times,” he began.
“Stay positive and keep moving forward.”
After suffering crippling headaches for years, the 29-year-old previously revealed that he went to the doctors.
“I went to the doctor who gave some medication which didn’t do anything."
He explained that one day he was lying on the couch in agony feeling “like there was a fire inside”.
“I tried to talk to the missus and I slurred all my words and mixed them all up.”
That’s when his longtime girlfriend Tahnee decided that he needed to go to the emergency room.
“It was unbelievable, like the most excruciating pain I’ve ever felt," Johnny said.
"I can’t even describe it. They put me on some medication and you know, I sat up and I vomited. It just wasn’t great.”
The Home & Away star fell into a coma overnight and the hospital staff were unable to wake him.
The next morning, Tahnee received a call from the emergency department informing her to come to the hospital straight away as he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour.
"And she had to drive down there and they said, 'Look, we need to do an emergency operation.' Because by this stage, I had slipped into a coma," Johnny said.
"She had to sign a form to give permission."