Unconvinced by the diagnosis, Tam Coyle's partner fought to have medics investigate further
A Scots dad has died three months after he received a shock cancer diagnosis after being left unable to get out of bed due to extreme pain. Tam Coyle from the Niddrie area of Edinburgh, started noticing something was wrong when he started experiencing a persistent cough and chest pains.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live Jackie said: "Tam was a funny person and liked to have a laugh. He loved his family and to be around them. He had six sons and was a father figure to my daughters. "Then he started getting pains losing weight etc he then got went to the Royal Infirmary for an X-Ray which confirmed he had pleurisy and was to take co-codamol.
"He was on tablets for weeks he also had shortness of breath, chest pain and back pain but it was the back pain that was worst then on February 15 he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer."
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