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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Liv Clarke

Man prepares to spend last Christmas with his wife after terminal diagnosis

A man diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour is preparing to spend his last Christmas with his wife. After suffering from agonising symptoms for two years, Dan Potts was diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain tumour in December 2021.

At first medics thought the symptoms were caused by a pinched nerve. But then the tumour showed up on an MRI scan and the 46-year-old was given the devastating news his cancer is terminal.

Dan and his wife Liah, 26, are now preparing to spend their last Christmas together, after the pair spent it apart last year when Dan was in intensive care. Dan, from a hamlet near Loweswater in Cumbria, said: “We think this Christmas may be our last together, so we just want to have Christmas dinner and spend some quality time together.

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