OTTAWA – A former Navy reservist whose brain tumour was misdiagnosed by military doctors says the Armed Forces has refused to accept responsibility and she’s been cut off from military benefits.

"I throw up every day, I have to carry around a puke bag," said Leading Seaman Robyn Young.

"I’m 24, I can’t work, I don’t have a future."

Young, from Windsor, Ont., who enlisted at 16 with the hopes of serving as a nurse, began experiencing double vision and vomiting in January 2013.The military sent her for corrective eye surgery, believing she was cross-eyed. The surgery caused permanent double vision and nausea.

Meanwhile, a small tumour went undiagnosed. It was only removed last June.

A military review into her case skipped over the military’s accountability, and that’s led to Young being cut off from benefits, she said in Ottawa on Monday.

"The Canadian Forces is totally throwing her aside," said Young’s mother, Pearl Osmond. "They are not taking responsibility."

A spokeswoman for the defence department said Young’s case was reviewed by the Surgeon General’s Complaints Committee, an external body.

“It concluded that the clinical management of LS Young’s case was consistent with the clinical assessment and with the Canadian standard of medical practice,” Lt-Cmdr. Meghan Marsaw said in an e-mail.

Young can also file a grievance with the appropriate provincial regulatory college “if she considers herself aggrieved by any decision, act or omission in the administration of the affairs of the CAF,” Marsaw said.

“Leading Seaman Young is clearly facing difficult circumstances, and the CAF has been helping her to the extent that we can,” Marsaw said.

Last month, Kenney assured in the House that Young would be supported. So far, that hasn’t happened, Young’s mother said.