Hello and thanks for your post,

I am so very sad to hear about your dad. it must have been a very difficult time for your family.

Unfortunately without being involved in your dad's care it is really only his own medical team that can tell you any more. 

The hospital will have written to your dad's GP with an explanation of how he had died.

If the GP has not got the information that you require, you could try and have a conversation with his specialist at the hospital. I am sure that his ear will have been swabbed when he had his infection to establish the most appropriate antibiotics but whether there was a post mortem after he had died I can't be sure but they should have told his next of kin if there was one.

I do hope that you find out the information that you are looking for if that is what you want to do but do remember that this is a rare condition. 

If you would like to chat this through with one of the nurses on the helpline then you are more then welcome to give us a ring. Our number is Freephone 0808 800 4040.

All the Best,

Catherine

Hi Thanks for replying. We have had numerous chats and meetings with his specialist after he died to find out things. It just has been playing on my mind though if his ear infection (as it was so bad) could've been a factor to him getting a brain tumour as if left untreated which his was for weeks it can spread to the brain and cause Meningitis I think. 

Which is why I copied & Pasted this...

Serious complications that affect other parts of the body include:

malignant otitis externa, an infection that spreads to the base of your skull and is more likely to affect older adults and people with diabetes or immune deficiencies

widespread infection, a rare, potentially life-threatening complication that occurs when malignant otitis externa spreads to your brain or other parts of your body.

Maybe I will ask the Brain Tumour Charity? 

Hi Thank you for spending the time replying to me. I do appreciate it. I have asked his consultant's secretary if she can help too. 

I did read on the Cancser Research link you kindly sent it stated it was a myth that a bump on the head could have caused it yet the doctors were actually asking my mum & dad that at time of diagnosis. It is very strange, the doctors at our hospital just did not seem to know what to do with my dad and his diagnosis. They kept telling us that it is very rare to have a brain tumour as the primary one - whch I have since found out is not the case and they at frst kept saying he had 3 tumours in his brain but it turned out after his scans were sent to Oxford to be looked at it was the dreaded 1 glioblastoma stage 4 and we were then told over a zoom call he had weeks left and no treatment was an option. He died a week later! As you can tell it is still very much a huge shock and very raw. He was mowing the lawn & had a holiday booked 3 weeks before he died. It just krept up out of nowhere it seems.