SQUINTING desperately as she tried to see the road ahead, Angela Gregg panicked behind the wheel.

Once again her vision had blurred suddenly, making it impossible to make out other cars or pedestrians around her on the busy street. Someone blared a horn and Angela pulled over, trying to stay calm until her eyes re-focused.

For weeks the 43-year-old had been plagued with strange episodes of sight loss, but being affected while she was driving left her badly shaken.

Angela, who lives in Suffolk, first noticed her clouded vision in October last year. As the bouts continued she became increasingly worried. She says: "Initially I noticed my eyesight wasn't focusing properly while watching TV.

"I went for an eye test but was told I had no problems. I thought it was tiredness. Then while driving my sight almost failed entirely. I knew then to contact my GP.

"It's a meningioma, which accounts for 25+ per cent of all primary brain tumours in the UK.

"As it is so deep it can't be removed or shrunk. And although it's not cancerous, it may get bigger than the current 2.5cm diameter.

The doctors can't tell me how much longer I have left. "All I could think was, 'Who will look after my kids when I'm gone'."

To reduce the chance of her tumour getting dangerously large, Angela had 33 SESSIONS of radiotherapy at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. The six-hour round trips from her home took their toll and Angela desperately needed something to take her mind off the situation.

Around that time she watched The Bucket List - and Angela started to plan a list of her own. 

On the list of items on her Bucket List are spreading the word about meningiomas and raising funds for Meningioma UK support. These aims have already been achieved when she saw her story featured in The Sun, took part in Heads Or Tails, and committed herself to fund-raising for us in 2010. She has thought hard about how to raise awareness of this type of tumour that affects so many women. As she had told the quiz show team that she was a great fan of Andrea McLean and the Loose Women TV Talk Show you can imagine her delight when the Heads Or Tails surprise guest was Andrea herself who has offered to be a Patron of Meningioma UK. Right now she and her team of friends are organising a village Dinner Dance in March. And they're in training for a team cycling challenge: Loose Women East To West rdie from Lowestoft in Suffolk to St David's Head in Wales

Life has been busy and exciting since she was selected as a contestant on Channel 5's Heads Or Tails shown on 19 December 09. She enjoyed a taste of celebrity life with a make-over and a great new fashion outfit, as well as winning a cash prize which improved Xmas no end!

2009 certainly ended on a high for Angela, but life got even better when, after an MRI scan, the New Year brought her wonderful news that, thanks to the radiotherapy, the tumour has shrunk.