A former carer diagnosed with advanced cancer while on holiday in Thailand is fighting to survive long enough to fly home and see his sons.
Andy Tracey, 59, was in Chiang Mai last March, where he still is receiving treatment, when doctors discovered he had stage four pancreatic cancer with a life expectancy of three to five months.
Grace O’Neill, a social worker and friend from Wimbledon, started a GoFundMe page to help pay for a potentially life-extending drug currently unavailable on the NHS to him.
She said: “It was so out of the blue that it just shocked everyone.
“But he’s very positive, very motivated and determined and is one of those single-minded people.
“Plus, he’s more than doubled his life expectancy.”
Andy, a full-time carer for his parents until they passed away in 2019, researched…
