A MUM-OF-TWO will wear a different hat every day this month to support a charity after she survived a brain tumour.
Jenny Cooper-Radley designed some of the colourful hats, including one decorated with daffodils, as part of Brain Tumour Research's Wear A Hat Day.
But instead of just wearing a hat on March 28, Jenny decided to raise as much money as possible by sporting an unusual hat every day in March.
Jenny, 41, from Great Baddow, said: "Just walking down the street I have been getting looks from builders, and passers-by who have been giving me money.
"I was ten minutes late for work because so many people were stopping me to ask what I was wearing. I think I have started on a high though with the daffodils, I don't know if I am going to be able to top it."
Jenny was hit by the news that she had a brain tumour after going for an eye test in October 2011.
"I had eye strain so I went to the opticians but they could not find anything wrong with my eyes," she said.
"They referred me to Broomfield Hospital where I had a CT scan and they found a 4cm tumour on my brain.
"Within four days I was taken to Queens Hospital in Romford to have it removed.
"It was barely a week and I had gone from having a tumour to being healthy again.
"It was like a whirlwind, I can't believe I went from just feeling fine to what happened."
Jenny, who works for Little Spring Wonders Day Nursery, in Great Baddow, was shocked at how suddenly a brain tumour impacted on her life.
She said: "I work full-time and have two small children, so I thought I would just get on with it.
"I had no idea that brain tumours were one of the biggest cancer killers for people under 40 in the UK, but they only get the equivalent of one per cent of the money that Cancer Research raises.
"I still have to go back for MRI scan check ups because the cancer can grow back, so hopefully the staff at the hospital will support me too.
"I have had so much support from work, my partner Wayne Thurnell, 40, and kids, Terry, 10, and Danny, 7, I am very lucky."
Jenny has so far raised £150, but to donate visit her Just Giving page on www.justgiving.com and search for Jenny Cooper-Radley.
