A Telford dad who lost almost a year of his life battling a rare form of cancer is launching a Cancer Research UK appeal to support life-saving research.
Cancer survivor Will Bowen, pictured with his family, is calling on people to support Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work
The 31-year-old engineer had been diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic leukaemia in April 2021 and spent the months that followed fighting for his life as the nation battled the second wave of the COVID pandemic. He missed all three of his children’s birthdays and had to learn to walk again after falling into a partial coma that doctors warned he may not survive.
Will first began experiencing symptoms in February 2021 when he noticed he had a sore neck and bruising on the top of his chest. At the time his wife Emma was being treated for a benign brain tumour, so he didn’t give either of these symptoms much thought. “My consultant came over to me and said, ‘I’m going to prepare you now – you might not make it until Christmas!’ Even though my body had been hammered with chemo I still had high levels of cancer in my blood.
But within hours of getting the good news, Will was rushed to intensive care with parainfluenza and fungal pneumonia. He didn’t see his children again for another two months. Will was well enough to return home for a few days over Christmas, before being discharged on New Year’s Day 2022. But just weeks later he caught Covid and had to be readmitted to hospital.
Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen survival in the UK double in the last 40 years.
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