to want this bastard to be told to get lost

[Blandmum]

Here

Sweet Jesus I wish we were as 'unlucky' as this man. What I wouldn't give fo dh to have been misdiagnosed.

[tigerschick]

Totally agree mb. Haven't read the article but heard him on Jeremy Vine and I want to know what he expected his wife to live on after he died?! Selfish doesn't get near!

So pleased that you have some good news on your dh at last. Hoping there is lots more to come.

[KathyMCMLXXII]

I thought his comment ?I am seeking compensation for what we have lost and to help everyone out at Treliske [Hospital] so they don?t have to go through what I did." was a little disingenuous.

[Blandmum]

I saw two other dting men this afternoon, who would love this sort of bad luck.

[LilyLoo]

Exactly Martian i wonder if he would feel differently if he spent a day in your dh shoes or took a trip to see what valuable resources his 'payout' could buy for people like your dh. Sometimes people are so bloody selfish.

[CuriousSquid]

MB, i saw this this morning and hoped u hadn't seen it

I can understand his anger and even his wanting his money back that he spent but there was no other outcome from his test apprently and he seems to hold within himself, the cure for cancer! If that was me, my sense of relief would be enourmous!

Great news about the tumours not growing MB. I know you would rather hear that they are shrinking but its great ews nonetheless.

Lauriefairycake, bastard is a much politer word than the ones i used when i saw it this morning

[Blandmum]

I'm not ill, my husband is dying on the cancer this man has been lucky enough to escape. My children are 7 and 10, dh was given 3-6 months to live. I'd change places in a heartbeat.

[KathyMCMLXXII]

I see where Laurie is coming from but then the sad thing is that there are so many people now whose anger (whether reasonable or not) seems to translate into suing people.
So ironic that (even if he doesn't have much of a case) his suing the NHS will result in LESS money to spend on people who need it.

[Lauriefairycake]

And... i didn't realise you were actually ill .....so now I feel like a right twonk.


Sorry

[Lauriefairycake]

Well....I think 'bastard' is a bit strong but I didn't see him on tv, I've only read the article you linked to.

I think he will ultimately feel happy that he is going to live but is probably consumed with anger about being misdiagnosed. If I try and imagine what that would be like for me I think it would be very distressing because:

1. I would spend my life insurance money on enjoying the world with my family in those last few months.......and then I'd probably have to pay it back

1. And I wouldn't then ever be able to get life insurance again - so family would be pretty screwed if I then subsequently died suddenly

1. And I would prepare the family and spend my whole time getting ready to 'die' and then feel very disorientated psychologically when I was then going to live - probably get post traumatic stress or something

and I think I can imagine that I would initially be angry

[DarrellRivers]

i saw him on the news yesterday and I thought of your DH MB and how happy any number of people would be pleased to be in his shoes
Can't he just count himself lucky the whinging man

[LilyLoo]

I agree too mb. I saw it in the paper yesterday. Would you really care if you had been one of the few who was lucky enough to have been misdiagnosed. He is a joke tbh and now he is sueing an already massively overstretched nhs, good man

[Blandmum]

Had his chemo today (infusion day) so tonight will be the test. He has taken some more antiemetics today, so we'll see how it goes. Good news in that the scan shoes that the tumours have not grown over 3 months

[ScoobyDooooo]

MB i agree i saw him on tv this morning & he was annoying me.