Stephen James Davies said his life is 'worse than a nightmare' after his ongoing battle with lymphoma has left him in so much pain he is unable to walk to his kitchen without gasping for air.
A helpless man whose life has been 'destroyed by cancer' as he 'suffocates to death' wants to be given the option to terminate his own life. Stephen James Davies, 62 says his life is 'worse than a nightmare' as he suffers from excruciating pain every day which leaves him struggling to walk to his kitchen without gasping for breath.
"I can't get upstairs. I can't read a book because I don't have the concentration. Chemo has damaged my mind. I was a smart guy before with a good memory but that's gone now. He claims that doctors failed to recognise his symptoms after he spent years 'in and out of A&E'. He explained: "I had been ill for many years. Things hadn't been right I'd say for a decade at least and in that time I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
He asked for an MRI scan which was carried out on a weekend and the following Monday he received a call from the hospital who told him that his prostate was fine but he unfortunately had follicular lymphoma cancer stage four. Mr Davies said. "This cancer must have been affecting me all these years. And over that period of years I lost my health."
He also had a chest drain placed on each side of his body which have both now been removed but aren't healing well as one side 'continually leaks'. He said: "If there was a supervised medical way of doing it [ending his life], I would do it. It would be the last thing I'd want to do because I'm frightened of death.
Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying, said: “Our thoughts are with Mr Davies at this difficult time. Terminally ill people must have the care and support they need to live their lives with dignity, as well as to die with dignity when the time comes, whatever their wishes may be.
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