Emotional appeal for Inverness man to secure life-saving treatment

A family from Inverness have appealed for family man, Steven, to secure life-saving cancer treatment.

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00:00 I got told that I've got brain cancer and I can die a minimum of 14 years later.

00:05 So I can die before I turn 46 years old.

00:08 The nurse has just taken me to the family waiting room and yeah, that's all I was saying,

00:12 I don't want him to die.

00:14 Yeah.

00:14 But we're still here.

00:17 Yeah, I'm a bubbly person.

00:20 Unfortunately, that's changed.

00:23 I had a lorry crash two years and two months ago.

00:26 In Beelie, I had a major brain tumour that made me have a seizure.

00:30 I passed out and smashed my lorry into a nose job in Beelie.

00:34 I was stuck and was cut out of the lorry.

00:37 Turned to hospital and found out I had a major tumour in the head and I had to go to Aberdeen

00:44 for an operation to try and save me.

00:46 I was in the hospital just under three months.

00:49 I was home.

00:51 My wife was pregnant with my daughter.

00:54 She came in January a few weeks when we'd been home.

00:57 On that day, I was still training to be a lorry driver, a fuel tanker driver.

01:02 I asked my passenger, whose lorry it was from Aberdeen area to drive because I didn't feel well.

01:09 I jumped in the motor.

01:11 I remember going past the primary school, the kids were out playing and after that,

01:17 I woke up in the lorry with the cyclist holding my roof open.

01:20 I was happy I survived because I'm a fighter.

01:24 So I'll always fight against all this stuff to try and be with my family.

01:27 So it's for a type of treatment that's not available on the NHS.

01:32 It's called immunotherapy treatment.

01:35 So basically, it helps your body fight the cancer cells,

01:40 but it's just not available on the NHS just now.

01:43 His life expectancy with the tumour that he's got because it can't be operated on

01:47 is seven to ten years.

01:49 And with chemo, they say about 14 years.

01:51 So we're already two years into diagnosis.

01:55 So the sooner that he gets it, the better.

01:59 I want him to be there for like Pyra's wedding and stuff like that.

02:03 So, yeah.

02:04 [Music]