Upworthy · 16 hours ago

She Emailed Her Boss to Request Time off. the 'Gibberish' She Wrote Saved Her life.

When chronic headaches sent Becca Valle to the emergency room in 2021, it wasn't the pain that saved her life-it was the gibberish she unknowingly typed in an email to her boss. "Emails I had sent to my work were gibberish, so much so that a close colleague escalated to my boss, as it frightened him," she recalls. What doctors found during emergency surgery was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer that had been masquerading as migraines for weeks. Now 42 and cancer-free for four years, Valle credits that frightening email-the one that made her colleague worried enough to raise the alarm-with getting her to the hospital in time. Sometimes the things that scare us most are exactly what we need to pay attention to.