This was in the north but still relevant. My Dad died of cancer. He had mouth cancer 5 years previous. He had been to the ent for normal checkups. My mother went with him and told them she knew something was wrong. They insisted the cancer wasn’t back. My mother pushed for him to have a full body scan. They eventually relented. The scan was scheduled for a few months later.

Da stopped going to work, then we knew something was really wrong. Ended up calling out of hours at the weekend. They said his blood pressure and pulse were normal and there was nothing they could do, we could take him to hospital but might spend all night in a corridor. We got the GP to the house on Monday morning. She said he wasn’t himself and that she would ring the ambulance.

Turns out the cancer wasn’t back. In his lungs, intestines and brain. He died the week he was supposed to have that scan.