A dad has left loved ones devastated after he died just weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.
Jamie Thompson visited A&E at the beginning of November complaining of stomach pain.
Tests revealed the 37-year-old from Middlesborough had cancer in his stomach, chest and lung.
Days later, the dad was rushed to hospital by ambulance following further complications.
A biopsy showed Jamie had suffered from a spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage in hospital, also known as a bleed to the brain, leaving him unable to breathe properly.
Family and friends, including five-year-old daughter Melody-Rose, were told to come and say their goodbyes before he tragically passed away on November 22.
A friend of Jamie's has now set up a fundraising page to help his family give him a send-off 'fit for a king' and to donate towards Melody-Rose's future - who she described as his "absolute world", reports Teesside Live.
Amy Milburn, a former neighbour and close friend, said: "Jamie was lovely, a really lovely guy. He always put everybody before himself.
"He could've been feeling the worst he's ever felt but if you messaged him and said you were in a bad place then he would always be there for you. He always had a smile on his face, no matter what was going on in his life."
"He just had such a zest for life," Amy, 35, added. "He was doing his best by his daughter. He was such a hard-working bloke and he worked to provide for his daughter when he had her on a weekend. If you were his friend, you were his friend for life.
"He was just such a lovely guy - nobody I've spoken to has had a bad word to say about him."
She added that Jamie had "lived and breathed" for his daughter.
Speaking of the diagnosis, she said Jamie's "whole entire world came crashing down around him" in that moment, adding that his "heart literally broke."
She said he was prescribed some tramadol, a strong painkiller, with the hospital telling him that they would be in touch about a biopsy.
On Saturday, November 19, Amy visited Jamie's home after not hearing from him, finding he had taken a turn.
"We rang the ambulance and they turned up quite rapidly and started to give him some anti-sickness and then I travelled in the ambulance with him to A&E.
"He was sent for another scan and the mass on his stomach had grown significantly. He was still vomiting through anti-sickness."
Sadly, Jamie suffered cardiac arrest shortly after a biopsy on the Tuesday. Doctors battled to revive his heartbeat, but he was no longer breathing.
A scan showed Jamie had suffered a bleed to the brain, which had shut down his lungs, and sadly passed away at 8.56pm on November 22.
