As I had previously written, Dad had been in hospital before Christmas and came home just in time, but was very poorly over the festivities.
Macmillan had just started coming to see us, and had managed to sort out his meds which helped a great deal, but unfortunately Dad deteriorated on New Years eve and found that due to extreme breathing difficulties he could hardly manage to get back upstairs at bedtime, from then on he stayed in his bedroom, except for going for a chest x-ray and he went by ambulance for that!
On Tuesday 10th Jan he was taken back into hospital and was found to have a massive pleural effusion, they inserted another chest drain but he took a turn for the worse and unfortunately lost his fight on Thursday.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thankyou once again for the help and support you have all given Dad, the advice that has been shared and the words of encouragement.
Good luck to you all in your fights against this horrible disease.
Karen and all our family xx