You'd think that a heart condition, 2 miscarriages, depression and anxiety, a broken neck, 3 bike accidents, 1 broken foot and a rear-ender from a sports car was enough to deal with for a young family....but apparently not.
As my husband, Martin's heart palpitations began to become more uncontrollable many investigations were planned. In 2016 an mri on the brain ( done due to tunnel and blurred vision) found a tumour on the right side of his brain. And a ct scan of his heart area found a lesion to be confirmed as lung cancer of incidental finding. Neither exactly what we were thinking about at his age of 50 and mine 37, with no symptoms.
After surgery to have 1/2 a lung out at guys hospital. (The brain tumour is slow growing at the moment and is to stay in place). Life now is completely different - nothing like the booklet said! It became very apparent he wasn't getting better after 6 months. He was still struggling to breath and could only walk short distances. His heart condition was re-diagnosed and now needed new medication. He has developed oesophagitis grade d and hiding underneath that was a hiatus hernia. To top it off he now has severe back pain that seems to be degenerative but is still being investigated. On the same scan showed 2 ribs with small lesions to continue to review..
Its all something you wouldn't wish on anyone. Theres appointments most months and hes in pain all the time. We're just waiting to see which illness kicks off next.
Our lovely families have helped us out financially but we all thought everything would be back to normal before now. This just wasn't the case.
Weve exhausted all avenues and theres no where else to go. We'd like to stay in our house. I want him to stay at home and be stress free about paying trying to pay the mortgage as he has treatment and he wants me and the girls to have a roof over our heads.
Obviously we would use the money to pay the rest of the mortgage enabling the main focus to be calm and not stress.