A woman who thought she had a brain tumor was "relieved" to discover the lump was in fact a parasitic worm. Rachel Palma knew something was up when she started acting out of character. She would forgot words, and tried to call her dead relatives, ABC 7 reported. The 42-year-old from Middletown, New York, also suffered "horrific nightmares," hallucinations and couldn't sleep, she told Today. When she tried to use her right hand, she would suddenly drop things. "My episodes were getting more and more bizarre," Palma told Today of her symptoms which emerged in early 2018. "There were days that I didn't know where I was." After a few trips to the emergency room, doctors performed an MRI scan on Palma which showed there was a marble-sized lesion on the left hemisphere of her brain, which is the dominant side in most right-handed people and controls language and speech. Palma told Today she and her husband were "both in shock" by the diagnosis. "I never really allowed myself to think that it