April said: 'When they said I had a brain tumour, my first thought was that I was going to die. 'It was a numbing moment. I was a single mum, and my daughter Abby was still a teenager.

Brain Tumour Research / SWNS April Tate's scan, showing the tumor deep inside her brain. That’s when doctors scanned her brain — and April was given the devastating news: She had a brain tumor.

The tune was a time-honored, and fitting, classic from “The Wizard of Oz”: the Scarecrow’s seminal hit, “If I Only Had a Brain.” Standing bedside, Burnell’s wife, Anne, sang along.

That’s when doctors scanned her brain — and April was given the devastating news: She had a brain tumor. And while it wasn’t cancerous, it was so deep in her brain that it couldn’t be removed.

That’s when doctors scanned her brain — and April was given the devastating news: She had a brain tumor. And while it wasn’t cancerous, it was so deep in her brain that it couldn’t be removed.