They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is true—in some situations, frighteningly so.

When Emma Cotillard went back over her wedding photographs, she noticed something she wished she had seen sooner. Emma, 33, was looking forward to a romantic vacation after marrying her lifelong boyfriend, Justin Cotillard. What she didn’t realize was that the vacation would turn into a nightmare.

It began one morning when Justin yelled at Emma to leave the room. Emma was seven months pregnant, so she was quite sensitive and responded angrily to her husband’s unexpected actions. And things simply got worse.

“He didn’t recall I was seven months pregnant with our first child. “He assumed I was a stranger,” she told the Daily Mail.

Justin was just 29 years old, so the symptoms were even more frightening. The couple had to postpone the rest of their holiday and return to their home in England, where a devastating telegram awaited them.

Justin had a severe brain tumor, and doctors estimated that he had just two years to live.

Justin began cancer treatment on the same day Emma gave birth to their first daughter, Mia, and was unable to greet his newborn girl into the world. Despite the therapy, Justin’s cancer spread rapidly. Emma recalls the awful comments of Justin’s physicians.

“They gave me two weeks to take my husband home before he died,” she said. Justin died in May 2016. Now, the couple’s daughter will have to grow up without her father.

Everything happened so quickly that no one suspected a brain tumor. Emma, however, took some time to reflect.

“Looking at the wedding photos now, you can see that the right side of his face is droopy,” Emma tells me.

Emma has shared her tale with the media in order to encourage people to seek medical assistance as soon as they notice any symptoms. Early detection of a tumor can lead to its treatment or even cure. Please share this article to convey Emma’s message.