Hi Everyone Im Danny Love and I am really looking forward to running the London 10,000.
I am doing this on behalf of Macmillan Nurses and can not wait.
To top it off its on my birthday too. THIS IS MY DADS STORY THAT I WROTE SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH Please feel free to have a read of my Dads story. Maybe you'll understand why Macmillian Nurses are so important to people who are going through rough times with family and friends who have cancer. Hi everyone!
Thought i really needed to do this and post a blog describing my dad and how he suffered and how my family & I are coping with the loss.
3 and a half yrs ago, my dad got diagnosed with Bowel cancer. At this time, my family and I felt sooo upset but needed to stay strong for my dad... he ( remarkably ) managed to keep strong and carry on with his life knowing the inevitable!
As a family, we decided to let my dad have the cancer operated on. The doctors at the manor hospital Walsall performed the operation and managed to cut the cancer away without my dad having to have a colostomy.
I saw my father in intensive care, and for someone to see that, especially being your own dad came as an unbelievable shock to me! I was just into tears the moment I saw him! but my dad still managed to keep his sense of humour.... taking into consideration, he has tubes, wires and monitors analysing every part of his body. He lifted his heads and said to the nurse "there's a crab on the rock" to which we all burst out laughing!!!
He managed to recover from his operation but was left with a huge scar on his stomach! but knowing my dad had beaten the odds and was on the road to recovery was amazing time for all of us!
Unfortunately.... we did not know that as a result from his bowel cancer, he'd obtained a tuma in his brain to which we didn't find until recently.
2 yrs went on... and my dad had an appointment at the hospital for a scan on his heart and lungs. the process involved putting a dye into my dads blood stream and them taking x rays to determine where the problems were. As a result of that scan, another blow to the system!!! MY DAD HAD LUNG CANCER|.
I couldn't believe it.... for someone to have cancer twice is just so sooooo bad. My dad had mentioned to him that he had 1 year to live.
he decided against having the radiotherapy and the kemo as he thought that this would make him suffer even more.
My dad had a very simple life! most people at that point would of wanted to go out! do things! visit places! but we thought my dad had given up!! but he had far from done that. My dad enjoyed nothing more than being with his family, going down to Willenhall to put on his bet and then going into the Chamberlin to have 1 or 2 pints with his friends...
As long as my dad was happy... I was happy....
As you can imagine, my dad slowly got worse. His trips to Willenhall went from 5 times a week to once maybe twice a week.
A year or so later, he visited the doctors and we had some good news! His lung cancer had became stagnant and was growing very very slowly. The words out the doctors lips were " your indestructible Mr Love" lol... We went away from there knowing my dad was going to be with us a little while longer
Over the last 3 - 4 months things have been going from Bad to worse.... He started falling over in the town and at home for no reason at all. We thought he was taking to much morphine or maybe doing it to crave attention..... at one point I was in the front room and my dad was in the greenhouse sorting some tomato plants.
Faintly I heard "daniel daniel". I rushed outside and he was lying through the greenhouse with all him legs, hands and arms cut!! I cleaned him up and shortly after knocked down the greenhouse! it was to dangerous for him...
To make matters worse my brother Melvin aged 46 died suddenly of a heart attacked in November last year. Melvin was my dads son from a previous marriage and he lived in east anglia. My dad was too ill to make the funeral and he grieved at home whilst me, mom and my sister went to Diss to show our respects....
My dad wasn't the same since......... as his falls became regular, we took him into the manor for some checks..... The worsted possible news came. My dad had a CT scan on his brain and a 2cm tuma was growing on his brain stream! We had to speak with the doctors to tell them that if my dads heart stopped at any point whilst in the hospital, we wouldn't want them to resuscitate him...
He came back home a few days later and within days his back in due to his back passage bleeding. He nearly bleed to death one night! we now know that the reason for this was, his cancer had returned back to his bowl. He had a chest infection whilst there and shortly after died.
I'm so happy now for my dad as he is out of pain. My family and friends have been so supportive and I can only thanks them from the bottom of my heart for there help at such a difficult time. RIP Dad I will always love you and never forget you!
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