A Gatehouse author’s new book looks at the life of a young girl in the Highlands at the end of the 19th century.
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Railway worker Terry Berry breathed a sigh of relief after being admitted to hospital with serious stomach pain - as medics told him they he had a nasty bout of food poisoning. But a matter of weeks later, he was sat in front of another doctor being told he had a rare, terminal cancer that might have never been spotted had it not been for his wife’s dodgy fish pie.
Aged just 58 in May 2020, the height of the Covid-19 lockdown, Terry spent a Bank Holiday weekend struggling with stomach pain. He was admitted to hospital, where doctors told him his symptoms were down to food poisoning after a parasite was found in his bowel.
“The doctor asked me 'who is the cook in your house?' And said 'you’ve got a bad bout of food poisoning'.”
Tests during his hospital stay revealed worrying signs, before Terry was then diagnosed with bile duct cancer – a rare form of cancer with poor chances of survival, typically not discovered until in its late stages. When Terry was diagnosed, his eldest daughter was planning her wedding and his youngest was seven months pregnant.
He didn’t think he’d make the wedding or see his grandchild. Yet, thanks to taking part in a research clinical trial, his cancer has stabilised and he is, incredibly, still alive, has been able to meet, and walk his eldest daughter down the aisle.
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A few days after he was sent home from hospital in May 2020, Terry, from Goose Green in Wigan, was called back in for a scan. He assumed it was to make sure that the food poisoning had abated, but staff instead told him that a shadow had been found on his stomach during tests carried out during his hospital
A Gatehouse author’s new book looks at the life of a young girl in the Highlands at the end of the 19th century.
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