After suffering some discomfort and then pain in my chest, especially at night when trying to sleep I went to my GP who referred me to a lung specialst, I was diagnosed plueral Mesothelioma February 2014. They found fluid in my right lung and drained out 1.5 litres.
It didnt quite sink in at the time, but after a while, it finally hit me with quite a blow, what condition I was in and the prognosis yet to come.
Its really strange thinking back, but it all fits into place now. I had been very fit most of my life until one day I couldnt seem to have the energy to get going for my morning run. I just put in down to my age. This was around 1996 the year I stopped playing rugby for good.
I continued to keep as fit as I could by cycling and going to the gym, but found it more and more diffucult to train.
I had suffered a few attacks of heart pulpitations, the DOC called it ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF) and eventually had a procedure called a radio frequency ablation, which cured me for a few years until around 2008. My GP put me on beta-blocker tablets which helped for a couple of more years.
In 2013 I had more AF attacks, so thedocyors decided I need another radio frequency ablation procedure. To start with, they put me on some blood-thinning medicine to prevent potential clotting due to the AF attacks.
It was around September 2013 that I got the pain in my chest, and doctors found that I had been bleeding from a small tumour in my right lung.
I've since then had two courses of chemotherapy, which imptoved matters and made me stable until christmas 2915. My condition has progressed, and have felt the tumour grow.
