My lovely dad was a fine fit man until September when he was very sick and had blurred vision , he visited gp who took bloods and said it was viral.
2 weeks later he had lost so much weight and so I took him to an emergency gp who reffered him to eye clinic at hospital 2 weeks later. At this appointment she made us feel like we were wasting her time.
By the time he went to the eye clinic his sight was so bad he was using a walking stick and looked like an old man yet they said it was catterachs, gave him drops and said come back in 2 weeks.
By this stage I was beside myself as he looked awful so I went with him and my mum and insisted that there was something wrong and that he doesn't normally look like that ....they did more tests and said he had suffered a stroke and admitted him. Two days later they did an mri and said not a stroke but a tumour and said they were sending scan to specalist hospital and he can go home and wait for a call.
After a week no call but told they were looking into it, a week of complaints I finally drove to the specalist hospital who said it had all been sent back to local hospital
By now it is mid October and after a few more days of calling local hospital he was readmitted and told it was an inflammation following the virus and put on steroids.
In Dec he had a follow up and still told inflammation but do another Fri. Called back by neurologist who said something had changed it did look like a tumour and wrote the name on a post it note for us to Google.
Obviously in total shock and then 2 weeks after that bombshell now late feb got an oncology appointment who told us terminal at most 6 months but will so radiotherapy to try to slow down.
I am totally in shock and devastated and I'm soooo angry that his diagnosis was not made in September and radiotherapy not even started yet.
I am constantly in tears and feel numb, I can not imagine life without my dad :(
