In may 2004 my husband arrived back from a week away at work, he felt tired and thought he may have picked up a cold.
Briefly within a week he was in hospital with septacaemia thought to have come from untreated and nasty bout of athletes foot!
During routine blood tests alarm bells rang when some unusual results came through.
Again briefly but a few weeks later he had a scintagraphie and was diagnosed with neuro endocrine cancer.
In december of the same year he has surgery to removed some of the larger lymph nodes and during this procedure he also had some discolored lengths of small bowel removed as a precaution.
He recovered well despite a serious infection and returned home to convalesce.
He was put on surveillance regime of 6 monthy scans and blood tests gor CGA, a marker.
He was constantly re assured by our 'gp' that this was a slow growing cancer and that apart from the scans he should carry on and more or less forget it.
As an aside after 40years excellent service in a government department he suddenly found himself on half pay.
So 3 years of scans and bloods followed.
