Help4David

Hi my names Jasmine Jackson. My partner, David is 28 years old and we have a 3 year old daughter together. In January 2013 My partner David had surgery to remove a melanoma for the left side of his head above his ear, they removed a certain amount of skin around the melanoma and depth beneath it and also removed 49 lynphnodes to prevent it spreading. Since 2013 David has had no check ups at all, in between 2014-2016 he had had all the signs of cancer and it wasn't until 6th January 2016 anything was done about it, 3 months before David couldn't walk straight, had no balance, weight loss, spewing, had double/blurred vision, extremely bad headaches, couldn't speak in sentences, was doing things and having no memory of doing it, sleeping all day and night and a lot more symptoms. You could just tell by looking at him something was seriously wrong, no matter how much i told the doctor at Buller medical, all the symptoms he was getting and that there was probley something in his head related to the melanoma he wouldn't listen. At the end of it i called my dad cause i was scared of what was going to happen next, my dad told me to take David in to the hospital so i did, they sent him up to Greymouth hospital for a CT on his brain which came back with a large tumor (5cms) in the frontal lobe of his brain then they flew him to Christchurch hospital to have it removed 10 hours later. The operation took 8 hours and the surgeons removed all the tumor they could without causing damage to the brain, it was sent away for a biopsy and came back as cancerous, stage 4 metastatic melanoma. Since then david has had full brain radiotherapy at Christchurch hospital and a follow up CT which has shown the tumor is still there its 2cms so now we are flying up to Dunedin for spot radiotherapy in march then later on will do a drug trail to hopefully stop it spreading further.