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Mr Ehab Bishay 2021-03-12 Person 5 5 0

After an x-ray and a subsequent C. T. scan, which confirmed a large (8cm) tumour in my right lung, I was I referred to Mr. Bishay at Cheltenham General Hospital. During my appointments, he explained in considerable detail the courses of action that were open to me and supplied useful booklets covering the different stages of investigation and possible surgery. Each procedure was explained fully until understood by myself. So far, the various biopsy’s had failed to discover any malignant cells either in the tumour or surrounding lymph nodes, but because of the size of the tumour, surgery was going to be the most likely outcome. There were a number of services available from Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Hospitals which were especially useful: Firstly, the Cancer Nurse Service provides telephone support to confused and sometimes frightened out-patients as well as dealing with in-patients. My contact with Fiona Young never failed to improve my situation, answer my questions and make me feel better in myself. Remarkable. Secondly, there is a Pre-operation service which helps to prepare you for your up-coming operation and improving your fitness levels and general well being and health, so important for a successful recovery. Finally, there is a Dietitian Service to help monitor your weight and diet to prepare for your operation, and recover more quickly after it. All these services have a follow up after your discharge and later during your recovery and are extremely valuable. Mr. Bishay informed me that a biopsy performed during the operation, carried out at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, had proved malignant and had been removed. As he had suspected all along that there was a malignancy, he appeared to be more than a little pleased to have been proved right, after all! My recovery was amazing, over the next two days I was able to get up and eventually walk as various tubes and drains were removed. My breathing seemed absolutely normal and I felt only a small amount of post-operative pain, which could be controlled by paracetamol. I had arrived on the 26th November and was discharged on the 28th November in the late afternoon. Three months later I am back to normal and extremely grateful for the tremendous service I received from the NHS. In a time when a pandemic was raging around the world I never experienced anything other than superb treatment and the best of care. Thank you to Mr. Bishay and his team, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital nurses, the Services Teams at Cheltenham and Gloucester Royal and everybody involved in keeping me alive. I owe you my life, and I will try not to waste the time you have kindly given me. Anthony Lewis