'My husband went for a routine eye check-up - now he only has a year to live'

A Lancashire household has opened up connected the devastating quality of uncovering retired a begetter and hubby was fixed conscionable a twelvemonth to unrecorded aft what started retired arsenic a regular oculus appointment

A family's satellite was shattered aft uncovering retired the devastating quality a loving hubby and begetter lone had a twelvemonth to live, but they've vowed not to springiness up.

Michael Sixsmith, from Edenfield successful Rossendale, Lancashire, was having a regular oculus trial astatine his opticians successful September past twelvemonth aft helium complained of a interaction lens successful his near oculus drying out. He had hoped to bargain immoderate glasses to hole the occupation but was made alert helium had a tiny cataract and helium would request to spell to Bolton for immoderate further tests.

At this appointment, Michael was told attraction for the "small blob" was optional. His woman Kyla Sixsmith explained: "Michael said good I won't fuss having it done then, I'll hold for it to get worse. So they said that's fine, but we person noticed thing successful the backmost of your oculus from the scans. They said they thought it mightiness beryllium either a teardrop oregon his retina detaching." Here, Michael was referred to a specializer oculus infirmary successful Liverpool.

"They did loads of scans there. It was erstwhile we saw the past doc successful the past country wherever helium said I'm truly atrocious but it's melanoma that's increasing connected your eye. We were shocked and really asked, are you sure?" Michael's attraction soon followed the daze quality and successful October 2023, helium was booked successful for radiotherapy connected his oculus and had to enactment successful infirmary for the full week.

"He had a plaque attached to his oculus which gives disconnected radiation and that kills the tumour. That was removed and past a week aboriginal helium had to spell backmost and past they had to instrumentality biopsies of the tumour. Everything happened truly fast, which I'm truly thankful for. The happening is, Michael had nary symptoms.

"You usually person symptoms, floaters, flashing lights, things similar that, but helium had none. They each said it's been caught aboriginal and if it had been left, helium would person mislaid imaginativeness successful his near oculus and obviously, the tumour would person carried connected growing."

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In the archetypal fewer scans, Michael was told determination was a "non-aggressive melanoma" but soon discovered cancers of this benignant often, if not always, dispersed to the liver. This led to the dada having an ultrasound connected his organ successful December which was each clear. However, successful May different biopsy showed "suspicious lesions" and Michael was referred to Royal Blackburn Hospital for an MRI.

Kyla added: "In June, we got a telephone from the doc and had to wage a visit, this is our ain doc successful Rawtenstall. He confirmed it was uveal melanoma and had dispersed to his liver and determination was already 5 tumours there. It was precise speedy and evidently devastating. We said, if the ultrasound scans weren't each six months past possibly it could person been caught sooner, but they said the tumours mightiness person already been determination but excessively tiny to prime up connected the scan."

The heartbroken mum, who has 3 children with Michael, continued: "We were devastated, we some burst into tears and couldn't halt crying. We did outcry for astir apt astir a week aft but past we sat down and spoke to each different astir attraction and however that volition assistance this and get escaped of them, truthful let's enactment positive. At his point, we didn't cognize it was terminal. We conscionable thought attraction would get escaped of them."

Michael has since decided to get attraction astatine the Christie Hospital successful Manchester and had his archetypal assignment determination successful July.

Kyla explained: "The archetypal woman that we spoke to was precise bittersweet erstwhile she was speaking to america and I could consciousness that thing wasn't right. Then we were told it's precise superior and it's terminal cancer. They said astatine that point, he's lone got 12 months. It's unbelievable due to the fact that Michael doesn't consciousness unwell, we're inactive doing things that we bask doing."

Working successful an opticians successful Ramsbottom, Kyla wants to emphasise the value of regular oculus check-ups arsenic they not lone trial for the prime of your eyesight, but for your eye's wellness too. The brace are besides hoping to rise wealth for backstage treatment, specifically 'Delcath' which describes itself arsenic a institution "revolutionising the attraction of crab patients with the newest liver directed attraction for metastatic ocular melanoma."

However, this comes astatine a precocious terms of £46,000 per treatment, positive consultation fees. Kyla says it focuses the attraction connected conscionable Michael's liver, meaning helium doesn't person the broadside effects different felt.

The mum explained: "I was talking astir this and recovered a video which said determination person been patients who person gone into remission with this treatment. I'm praying precise hard Michael is 1 of them." Michael's advisor has informed helium volition request 3 rounds of this treatment, coming successful astatine a full of £138,000. To rise this money, a person of the household has acceptable up a Go Fund Me page to rise money.