Father leaves heartbreaking note for daughter after cancer death

A father diagnosed with terminal cancer wrote a note for his daughter to read after he had died.

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00:00He was about to retire and basically had some symptoms like flu-like symptoms, went to the

00:13doctors, the GP and they sent him for further testing and then it was all a shock and he

00:17had stage 4 cancer, bowel cancer, so yeah it was awful.

00:22I'm also a nurse, it made it quite difficult because I felt like I knew a lot more than

00:26some people did so that made it quite hard. He had lots of chemo, several operations and

00:32a lot of them were far away in London which made it hard for us because we had to travel

00:35there a lot and also a lot of the treatments during Covid which made it really difficult.

00:41He was really, really positive, always used to say it is what it is, which, sorry, yeah

00:50which made it harder for us because sometimes we were more cross than he was just because

00:54he was so positive. He wrote us all individual letters just saying how lovely we were and

01:01that he was proud of us and then in my letter it said that my partner had been to see him

01:06to ask for my hand in marriage. Sorry! But yeah, it was lovely.

01:13I just went to Rome with my partner who asked me to marry him, so yeah.

01:25What do you think your dad would be saying if he were here today?

01:28He'd be really happy. Yeah.

01:33How am I feeling today? Really good.

01:37Sorry, I'm busy. I don't want it.

01:53It's really important. I think some people don't realise how much funding needs to go

01:58into the research as well. There's obviously lots of different cancers and obviously sometimes

02:03people don't get the treatment because of the money and the funding, so it's really

02:06important people can raise awareness and raise money. He'd be really proud of us, I think,

02:11for sharing our story because it is really hard but I know that it will help a lot of

02:14people to hear our story.