A Scots dad has hit out at a council as sewage water flooded the basement of his barber shop months after a fire at a nearby shop.
29.05.2023 - 16:39 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots dad has died three months after he received a shock cancer diagnosis after being left unable to get out of bed due to extreme pain. Tam Coyle from the Niddrie area of Edinburgh, started noticing something was wrong when he started experiencing a persistent cough and chest pains.
The 60-year-old visited his GP but was told that he had pleurisy and was given co-codamol to deal with the pain. Unconvinced by the diagnosis, his partner Jackie Ann Dempsey, 45, fought to have medics investigate further as he started losing weight and experiencing debilitating back pain.
It was only when Tam was rushed to hospital after he was unable to get out of bed that Jackie convinced doctors to do more tests. Medics then tragically informed the family that they had discovered that the dad had terminal cancer which had spread throughout his body.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live Jackie said: "Tam was a funny person and liked to have a laugh. He loved his family and to be around them. He had six sons and was a father figure to my daughters.
"He was a big betting man on the horses and one of his wishes before he passed was to make it to see the Grand National. He told everyone to put on the horse Ain't That a Shame as he was convinced that was going to be the winner but the horse came in 17th.
"Even when he was ill he still wanted his bets put on. Everything happened so quickly, he had a cough so had gone to the GP and told him to get a cough bottle but it didn't help.
"Then he started getting pains losing weight etc he then got went to the Royal Infirmary for an X-Ray which confirmed he had pleurisy and was to take co-codamol.
"He was losing weight and had a really sore back so he ended up back in hospital for back pain - he was in agony. Tam had
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