Cancer has got to be one of the most horrible things that a person could ever experience. It's not only the physical pain from the treatments but the mental pain too.
But imagine if it was all for nothing.
That's what one UK dad had to go through. According to The Sun, 41-year-old Simon Pearson was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer. Polycythemia vera is a rare type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow before growing out into the blood.
He was also diagnosed with hemochromatosis, which is a condition that causes a buildup of iron in the body.
Pearson explained that he had trust in his doctors. "I had no reason to dispute anything that I was told and put my trust in the doctors." Who wouldn't, right?
The conditions he was diagnosed with meant that he had to endure some pretty grueling treatments. For his hemochromatosis, he had to have 42 injections to drain the blood from his body to prevent a toxic buildup.
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Pearson had a "real phobia of needles". He said that "repeatedly having blood taken from me was traumatic".
Of course, for the cancer, the treatments were a whole lot more taxing on his body. He explained that the chemotherapy led to his "quality of life and ability to work [being] affected". He continued that the treatment also made him "struggle to provide" for his family.
Pearson added, "I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact it was all a mistake. At times, it feels like I've lost my sense of reality."
And now, he's suing the hospital that wrongly diagnosed him. His lawyer, Victoria Zinzan, went into detail about the suffering he endured.
"Simon spent years believing he was living with a serious and potentially life-limiting illness, undergoing repeated and inappropriate hospital procedures, which caused him harm."
"The past few years have taken a significant financial, physical and emotional toll on Simon who remains shocked and upset at what he's had to endure."
