He goes to the doctor with discomfort, they send him home for an insect bite and ends up with terminal cancer
David Whitford, a 49-year-old Briton, had his life completely changed in 2019 when he went to his medical center for a simple general malaise.
At that time, the doctors who treated him determined that the ringing in his ears he felt and his dificulty to walkin addition to stomach upset, were due to an insect bite.
With that diagnosis, Whitford went home, hoping that all the pain would go away with the medication she had been prescribed, but it didn’t.
Whitford was forced to go to the hospital again after a few days because the pain not only did not subside but got worse.
It was then that they subjected him to more exhaustive alternative tests that ended up shedding light on what was happening to him: he had a large mass in his brain that had to be removed.
However, the passage through the operating room not as productive as expected and the tumor continued to grow, until it reached a terminal stage in which Whitford is now.
A crowdfunding to travel to the United States
He left his job since it was impossible for him to continue developing his professional activity as a bus driver, but at no time did he give up despite seeing his economic capacity considerably reduced.
Withford has opened a crowdfunding to try to undergo treatment in the United States that may extend your life with medical advances from the other side of the pond.
“March 4th is my next scan to see if the brain tumor is still on hold or has grown back. I will keep you informed and thanks for everything,” wrote the British, hopeful, and wanting to go to the US and say goodbye to the nightmare.
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