It started off back in October this year. One minute I'm fine, the next I'm doubled up at a customers home, later that day I'm admitted to hospital after tests with a suspected knackered gall bladder. I've turned yellow and my back and upper chest hurts. So I'm booked for an op 6 weeks later to have the thing removed and sent home with some painkillers and told to avoid fatty foods. Nothing to worry abou there I thought. While somewhat stunned by the radical alteration it would mean to my diet, I was actually pleased they'd found the cause of my discomfort which had been creeping on over the previous weeks and months, but I'd ignored it until now. Unfortunately, I didn't make the 6 weeks til the gall bladder op. with two weeks to go, on 22 November, I was taken in again, in a lot of pain and VERY yellow. This time, the CT scans found my common bile duct was blocked, as was the main pancreatic duct, and I underwent two ERCP ops to fit stents and carry out a sphincterotomy. During these ERCP ops the took some brushings of the pancreatic duct for analysis. After 13 days in Hospital I almost insisted on going home for my birthday on the 4th December, under a promise to go back the next day for a final CT scan. This I did and the following meeting with the consultants this week(again, the 13th!) I was told the results of the biopsy were cancerous cells present around the head of the pancreas. To say I was stunned was an understatement. My poor wife was with me and she burst into tears, nearly taking me with her. They told us it looked inoperable due to the location around lots of major blood vessels, but that we'd be contacted later in the week by the MDT team regarding what and when treatment would begin.
