![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/loving-dad-dies-after-urgent-phone-call-orders-him-to-go-to-hospital-immediately/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_FB_IMG_1692189629324.jpg&description=Kevin Gillett from Liverpool initially thought his symptoms were due to diagnosed Crohn's disease until doctors discovered a tumour which had spread to his lymph nodes A "fun, loving" dad died just weeks after receiving a phone call telling him to go straight to hospital. Kevin Gillett was feeling increasingly unwell in April and feared the symptoms were due to his Crohn's disease. Doctors told the 40-year-old there were no available appointments for six weeks, but by the time he was seen in June he couldn't keep food down. Less than a week after his appointment, mum Odette de Freitas said Kevin was called by a nurse who told him to go straight to hospital where doctors would be waiting for him. The dad, from Huyton, Merseyside, underwent a series of scans showing a tumour on his liver which had attached itself to a vein. Doctors at the Royal Liverpool Hospital carried out a biopsy before breaking the devastating news the cancer had spread to his blood, lungs and lymph nodes. Odette, 60, said the news confirmed her worst fears. Kevin was initially told he could have four months left to live, Liverpool ECHO reports, but he tragically died at Whiston Hospital surrounded by family just six weeks after his diagnosis on August 1. Family friends have since set up Gofundme page has been set up by neighbours Lauren and Laura to raise money for Kevin's funeral, and cover the cost of a memorial where his seven-year-old son who Odette said was his "absolute world" can go to remember him. Odette said: "He'd been feeling quite unwell since having Covid after Christmas but by the end of April, May, he was finding he couldn't eat at all and was vomiting. Six weeks he was trying to get an appointment. "I feel like he's been badly let down by the whole system. I couldn't knock the nurses at the Royal or Whiston they are amazing. But it's the whole system - they're not seeing people and doing tests before it gets to that stage. "The staff are trying their best. It's the whole process){kind=link}
Kevin Gillett from Liverpool initially thought his symptoms were due to diagnosed Crohn’s disease until doctors discovered a tumour which had spread to his lymph nodes
A “fun, loving” dad died just weeks after receiving a phone call telling him to go straight to hospital.
Kevin Gillett was feeling increasingly unwell in April and feared the symptoms were due to his Crohn’s disease. Doctors told the 40-year-old there were no available appointments for six weeks, but by the time he was seen in June he couldn’t keep food down.
Less than a week after his appointment, mum Odette de Freitas said Kevin was called by a nurse who told him to go straight to hospital where doctors would be waiting for him. The dad, from Huyton, Merseyside, underwent a series of scans showing a tumour on his liver which had attached itself to a vein.
Doctors at the Royal Liverpool Hospital carried out a biopsy before breaking the devastating news the cancer had spread to his blood, lungs and lymph nodes. Odette, 60, said the news confirmed her worst fears.