Devoted dad, 37, who had ‘never been ill’ a day in his life is diagnosed with aggressive stage four cancer after discovering a small painless lump on the back of his neck while driving home to his pregnant wife

Until three months ago Arlo McDiarmid’s life revolved around his growing young family, pregnant wife Isla and their beloved two-year-old daughter, Indigo. Always active and on his feet, the security manager rushed from work to his home in Auckland, New Zealand, to play with his little girl every evening, eagerly diving into whatever mischief and fantasies had been imagined by the toddler he adores. When the 37-year-old who had ‘never been ill’ a day in his life scratched the back of his neck and felt a hard, painless lump while driving one evening in May 2019, he saw a doctor to dispel a niggling doubt that something wasn’t right. Tests showed he was suffering from strep throat, a usually harmless bacterial infection that inflames lymph nodes in the neck and causes fever and fatigue. But after months passed and symptoms lingered, with intensifying exhaustion and swollen masses inexplicably rising and falling beneath his ears, he met with a specialist who referred him for scans and a procedure to remove a node for further analysis. In January, eight months after leaving his GP with a certificate for a throat infection, Arlo received the devastating news that aggressive adenocarcinoma was growing in… Read full this story

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