Published: Thursday, 31st July, 2008 12:20
Dying Dalgety Bay dad calls time on cancer treatment
By Laura Cummings
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A DYING father from Dalgety Bay who has a brain tumour has again changed his mind about receiving treatment.
Willie Logan (44), who was told earlier this year that he had between 18 months and two years to live, had stopped his radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments at the end of May.
Days later, though, he vowed to continue with the chemotherapy in a bid to have as much time as he could with his six-year-old son, Ewan.
But he decided last week to stop his treatment once and for all.
He told the Press, “I couldn’t do it again. I couldn’t face it. I felt worse than I did before I was taking them.
"As the weeks have been going on, I’ve been getting really quite bad. I was finding it harder and harder.
“I just didn’t feel right. I started to feel sick and really tired. I was lying in my bed for 24-48 hours – I couldn’t get out of bed.
“I just woke up and decided ‘I can’t do it any more’.”
He continued, “I was starting to feel down and I just said to myself, ‘It’s these tablets’. I decided to call it a day. It was time to draw the line and get on with the way I want to live.”
But Willie, of Otterston Grove, stressed, “I don’t want to put people off (treatment) because it might benefit other people, but it just wasn’t benefiting me as a person.”
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