'I thought I was just hungover - but when I called doctors they sent an ambulance to my home'
'I thought I was just hungover - but when I called doctors they sent an ambulance to my home'
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A man has shared how he thought symptoms of his bowel cancer was a simple hangover after a heavy night. Rob McPherson, 39, was struck down by an overwhelming wave of nausea one Saturday after enjoying a few beers with pals the night before. But as the sickness dragged on, he suspected he may have a stomach bug instead. Rather than getting better, his condition worsened - and Rob Rob was struggling to keep any food or drink down.
“I started feeling ill one Saturday and was throwing up,” Rob, who lives in Miles Platting, told the Manchester Evening News. “I thought I had eaten too much and drunk too much. I didn’t want to eat anything and was just throwing up. “It was then that I thought it was just a general sickness bug. I felt like I wanted to eat, but whenever I did, it just came back up again. Anything that went down came back up. I started to not want to eat or drink anything. I was getting pains every now and again. I was feeling bloated and ill, with hardly any sleep at all.”.
Rob became so unwell he was forced to take a week off work from his job as a digital media officer at a local school – something he says he never does. After three weeks, Rob’s partner encouraged him to dial 111 and medics immediately sent an ambulance to his home.
Rob, now aged 39, can recall paramedics asking him a series of questions before telling him they were going to Manchester Royal Infirmary. “I thought, ‘Oh dear, something could be wrong here,’ Rob recalled. “I just thought I was intolerant to bread, beer, chocolate or something like that. I was like a typical man – I thought I could beat it and that I’d get over it. Even at that point, I thought I would be fine.”.
