Adrian Sudbury was a reporter for both the Huddersfield Express and Chronicle Series and the Huddersfield Examiner. In November 2006 the 25-year-old was promoted to digital journalist, effectively editing the new-look Examiner website.
Just two days into his new role he became seriously ill and called in sick. A week later he drove himself to A&E and was eventually diagnosed with leukaemia.
It was then identified that he actually had two distinct types of the disease running at the same time. According to the medical literature he was the only person in the world to have this condition. As such, it was not possible to offer Adrian a prognosis.
Here he shared his experiences of the disease and his treatment up until his passing.I have just found out that the chronic myeloid leukaemia could be back.
I couldn't believe it when my doctor revealed the results of my second bone marrow sample. I was just so confident it would still be a total remission.
However, I am not too worried about it.
As a journalist you are trained to put the most interesting facts at the top of the story. The purpose of this is to grab the reader's attention and make them want to read on.
I hope that's been achieved.
Now, before I explain why it's important not to be too concerned at this stage, please permit me a little bit of whinging.
Continue reading Bad news but don't worry too much (Part 28).
