A dad who ‘refused to leave’ hospital after being told to see a GP was later diagnosed with a terminal leukaemia. Gareth Dixon had pleaded with health staff for vital blood tests after waiting 20 hours to be seen.
A dad who ‘refused to leave’ hospital after being told to see a GP was later diagnosed with a terminal leukaemia.The 40-year-old, from Warrington, had gone to A&E with hip and rib cage pain.Gareth said he had struggled to get a face to face appointment at his local GP practice in the weeks prior.When he was seen by a doctor at Warrington Hospital, Gareth claims he was told to simply chase up an appointment with his GP.‘They basically told me there was nothing wrong with me.
His wife, Laura Dixon, says she was ‘heartbroken’ on hearing her husband’s diagnosis and still has ‘breakdowns’ every couple of days when the reality hits her that he is terminally ill.Plasma cell leukaemia is a rare and aggressive variant of multiple myeloma characterised by a very high number of plasma cells in the blood and bone marrow.
The distinction between multiple myeloma and plasma cell leukaemia is based on the presence of a circulating peripheral blood plasma cell count of greater than 20% of white blood cells and/or more than 2×106/ml of leukaemic plasma cells in the peripheral blood. ‘I am so proud of him because he is just getting on with it. He is being really brave. I break down every few days – it just gets on top of me. But he is so strong.Gareth will soon have a stem cell transplant, which medics hope will put him into remission to allow him to make special memories with Laura and his sons Lewis, 12, and Dom, 19 over the next few months.
The treatment entails the 40-year-old going into isolation for a month before receiving intense chemotherapy, to kill the cancer cells, before his stem cells are reintroduced into his body.‘The drugs I was on so they could harvest the stem cells made me feel really ill.
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