For him, you could say that the plane had fallen out of the sky. In the upcoming weeks, he had been hoping to compete in a national championship for paper plane throwing. That isn’t at all possible with a brain tumour the size of a golf ball. He had just had his 21st birthday and was, “Starting to get…headaches that were quite severe.” (Australian Story) At the time he had just thought, like anyone else would have, that he just needed a good night’s rest. But, “over a period of 4 or five weeks the headaches kept getting worse and worse”, “his father, who was a doctor, was ordering multiple” complicated “tests from afar to treat what was obviously much, much more than a simple headache.” (Australian Story) But they all held one simple conclusion, they had to cut the tumour