Dad given six months to live planned funeral before doctors told him "cancer" was abscess
dailyrecord.co.ukA dad given six months to live began planning his own funeral - before doctors later told him his "cancer" was a harmless abscess.Callum Laing, 40, had been suffering from intense headaches in March when medics carried out a scan and discovered a mass roughly the size of an orange growing inside his skull.He was diagnosed with a stage 4 Glioblastoma brain tumour, but just weeks later, after surgeons attempted to operate on the growth, Callum was given the unbelievable news his lump was completely benign.
The stunned father-of-two, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, described the ordeal as the "biggest rollercoaster of his life" and told how he immediately prepared to say goodbye to his wife and young children.He told the Record: "When I was given the diagnosis the doctors told me I might not make it to Christmas and all I could think about was making precious memories with my wife Vikki and my wee boys Joey and Jed.
They're only nine and four."It was a horrible, deep, sinking feeling. I wondered who was going to teach them to play football if I wasn't around."Then I thought of missing their birthdays and other big events like their graduations and weddings.
It just broke me."These are all big milestones that you look forward to when you become a parent."And as your kids grow older, their wee personalities change and they become different people.
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