In mid-2012 Andrew started to become ill.  He was eventually too ill to keep his job but put it down to depression and chronic stress.  

A few months later after being misdiagnosed (first with Gastritis, then with Gastroentiritis) a specialist saw him, ordered scans and it became apparent that he was in the final stage of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and needed urgent treatment.

Initially only pain management was considered because it was assumed he was already too weak to survive chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery to remove any of the 35+ tumourous lumps which had spread through his neck, throat, liver, and intestinal tract.  Fortunately due to an astonishing turn-around brought on by simple steroid tablets, R-CHOP chemotherapy was started 3 weeks after being admitted.

5 months later and he was amazingly on the road to recovery and released home from St.George's hospital, London, and embarked on trying to rebuild his life and recover as best he could, cycling every day, every week, in all weather to become as fit as possible should "it" return....

...and now 3 years on, debts halved, almost back to being fully competent at the job which chemo almost robbed him of the ability to do.... the Lymphoma has reared it's ugly head again.

It has been caught at stage 3, however seems to have returned with a vengance.  The original treatment no longer has any effect and has been substituted for the much harder hitting D-HAP, in far stronger doses than back in 2012.

Unfortunately due to this being a relapse, this treatment will make the previous treatment look like a cake-walk in comparison.  Once the 3 rounds of D-HAP chemo are over (2 have been completed with some promising results so far), he will go back in to hospital for up to a month for treatment which will intentionally destroy all of his bone marrow and immune system.  Following this potentially life-threatening process, he will be kept in a room largely by himself, at risk from everything from dust to colds to random infections and will subsequently be unable to work or have any close contact with people unless absolutely necessary.

Assuming he pulls though the final treatment and scans and blood tests come back with positive results he will be bed-ridden for anything from a month to potentially the end of the year.

Unable to earn anything and with nothing left of what savings he managed to build following getting his life back from the previous round of cancer, he will be desperate for any help people can throw his way.  It is his final option as his previous job was a contract and there will be no sick leave or company health insurance to help keep his and his girlfriend's roof over their heads for the length of his illness.

Anything anyone out there can donate to help with his impossible situation, he will be immensely grateful for and most importantly he will be able to fully focus on facing this illness face-on and getting better as quickly as possible!

Thankyou so much for taking the time to read his page.