Dad said to take painkillers for the headache, he only has one year to live

A father ignored a headache for four weeks and a doctor ordered him to take painkillers – before discovering a few days later that he had only one year left to live.

The father of three, Ross Dinmore, went to a doctor with the feeling that he had been "hit on the head with a hammer" after a month of pain, but he urged others to get help faster, as in A & E, where he had been told that it was inoperable. cancer.

The 45-year-old is devastated by the overwhelming announcement that he has a rare type of brain swelling after spending the night on an MRI scan.

His diagnosis of stage four glioblastoma has a life expectancy of between 12 and 18 months.

The former delivery driver says that he "does not support the idea" of leaving his wife Leah, 40, her four-year-old daughter Ella, and her sons Luke, 13 years, and Daniel, 17 years old.

And he still refuses to accept what health professionals are telling him, leaving rather hope for a costly medical trial.

He said, "I refuse to accept what the doctors tell me, I can not take my head and have a headache, and then I am told that I am going to die, that makes no sense to me. "

"Hearing this being so strange, I felt completely numb, my headache was incredibly painful, but I never thought something bad was going wrong."

"This should serve as a warning to others that they will seek help in case of a problem.

"I only went there because my wife forced me to do it, I thank her for it."

Ross, of Arundel, West Susbad, requested medical badistance from his doctor on his birthday two months ago, before going to the hospital on May 31, but he was just told take painkillers.

He then went to A & E, where he spent the night before returning for his MRI results on June 3, when he was diagnosed with glioblastoma.

Surgeons operated on Ross that day to remove the tumor, but because of its aggressive nature, the size resumed rapidly.

The father of three was put on radiotherapy and is now in his fourth week of chemotherapy, which caused him a hair loss.

Although his diagnosis is definitive, Ross is desperate to receive an immunotherapy treatment called DCVax, which is an expensive clinical trial of £ 200,000.

"I know this medicine has helped people in my situation to live a long life.I have a beautiful loving wife and a beautiful princess girl with two boys."

"I want to see the kids growing up, I can not stand the thought of leaving them, it would have a devastating effect on them.

"If this treatment can save my life, I'm ready to do anything."

Ross participates in crowdfunding to raise funds for DCVax treatment on GoFundMe.

You can donate to Ross's campaign on his GoFundMe page.