EXCLUSIVEDoctors said my excruciating 支援する 苦痛 was 負かす／撃墜する to a slipped レコード - but the truth was much worse: Agony of gym-loving father, 46, 診断するd with 血 癌 which could come 支援する at any point

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A father's excruciating 支援する 苦痛 that was 解任するd as a slipped レコード by doctors 現実に ended up 存在?癌.?

David Windle, from Camberwell in south London, was at one point unable to move because doing so would leave him in agony.?

にもかかわらず 非常に／多数の trips to his GP, osteopath and physiotherapist in December 2021 and January, the 46-year-old was still in 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なうing 苦痛.?

Mr Windle assumed it was a 汚い ゆらめく-up of a twinge that he 苦しむd years earlier at the gym but was desperate for 救済.?

On two occasions before his 結局の myeloma diagnosis, he was even sent to A&E. Medics there 支配するd he likely had a slipped レコード ? when soft tissue between bones in the spine 押し進めるs out ― that was 圧力（をかける）ing on 神経s.

David Windle, 46, who kept fit by going to the gym, running and cycling, 解任するd his 支援する 苦痛 for almost four years putting it 負かす／撃墜する to a gym 傷害

Mr Windle's 苦痛 進歩d to the point where he'd 'はう across the 床に打ち倒す from the bed and 嘘（をつく） there'.?

During the February 2022 half-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, he needed his mother to help look after his two children, Sylvie, 9 and Otis, 6.

解任するing the extent of his 苦痛, Mr Windle, a 副 headteacher, told MailOnline: 'I was supposed to look after my kids.??

'I had to call my mum and say I can't move, you need to come and look after kids.

'I would just get out of bed every day and はう across the 床に打ち倒す from the bed and 嘘（をつく） there.'

The 副 headteacher, pictured with his wife Emma Smith, 49, was told his 支援する 苦痛 could be a slipped レコード

In February 2022 老年の 44, Mr Windle was 診断するd with myeloma, a type of 血 癌 that can 影響する／感情 your bones

When Mr Windle went 支援する to work after half-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, he would 'find an empty office to 嘘（をつく） in' just to help him get through the day. 結局, he 設立する himself working from home propped up by cushions.?

His osteopath 示唆するd getting an MRI ざっと目を通す, although he wasn't able to get one on the NHS.

Mr Windle, who paid to get one 個人として, said it?'明らかにする／漏らすd the 災害 which was the next year and a half of my life'.

ざっと目を通すs 明らかにする／漏らすd one of his vertebrae had 崩壊するd with no known 原因（となる） ? but he was told it could be a 癌.

He said: 'It was a terribl e moment. I was sitting there and the world just disappeared around me.'

He rang his wife Emma, 49, and explained he needed to get to hospital 緊急に.

Once at A&E, doctors looked at Mr Windle's MRI ざっと目を通すs and asked if he had been in a car 衝突，墜落 or had any 外傷／ショック. He said: 'They all looked a bit worried.'

He spent a fortnight in the hospital's spinal 部隊, を受けるing several ざっと目を通すs and 血 実験（する）s.

解任するing the day he 設立する out his diagnosis, Mr Windle said: 'I had decided to go for my daily walk from my bed on the hospital 区, so I’d struggled into the 支援する を締める I had to wear and 始める，決める off for my 回路・連盟 of the hospital.

'I was on the ninth 床に打ち倒す, so I’d got into the habit of walking up and 負かす／撃墜する the stairs to keep fit.

'But on the way out the 区 I walked past the space where the doctors and nurses gathered around the computers. I heard a doctor chatting to a nurse and I heard him 説, "井戸／弁護士席, myeloma at 44, that's a bit s***, isn't it?"

'I just thought, "yes that does sound a bit s***"… "oh s*** I think they're talking about me". So I sort of 支援するd away, just out of their 見解（をとる）, and I listened, I listened to them talk about it. And I thought, okay, that is me. That's my diagnosis.'

Myeloma is an incurable 血 癌 which strikes around 6,000 Brits every year. It develops from plasma 独房s in bone 骨髄 ? the spongy tissue inside large bones ? multiplying uncontrollably.

Symptoms can be difficult to distinguish from other illnesses, with 苦痛 and 疲労，（軍の）雑役 存在 tell-tale 調印するs of the illness.

Mr Windle was 診断するd with a rare type of myeloma called 'light chain' myeloma, which only 影響する／感情s about 20 per cent of 患者s with the 血 癌. Because of its 特徴, it can be even harder to （悪事，秘密などを）発見する.

For Mr Windle, the cancerous?独房s cluttered up his bone 骨髄, meaning it didn't make the useful 独房s that make and regenerate the bone, 原因（となる）ing his vertebrae to 崩壊する, doctors believe.?

Mr Windle 追加するd: 'As soon as I was in the 治療 pathway, everybody 行為／法令／行動するd very quickly.?

'There's no one looking at a 44-year-old man who goes to the gym runs, cycles and is fit. No-one's thinking this is an incurable 癌.

'The only 問題／発行する is people aren't aware of myeloma or looking for it. I had to wait for my spine to 落ちる apart before I had any sort of 実験（する） to 明らかにする／漏らす what it is.'

Once his results （機の）カム 支援する he had a bone 骨髄 生体検査, which 伴う／関わるs a needle 存在 stuck into the pelvis.??

Mr Windle, pictured wearing his 支援する を締める?was 診断するd with a rare type of myeloma called 'light chain' myeloma, which only 影響する／感情s about 20 per cent of 患者s with the 血 癌

Mr Windle said: 'I had to wait six 少しの ks to find out what 行う／開催する／段階 my myeloma was.?

'But the good news I had in that first two months was the myeloma was 公式に 基準.'

He had four months of chemo and was given the 癌-fighting 麻薬 bortezomib と一緒に tablets of the steroid dexamethasone.

Mr Windle 追加するd: 'I was already emotionally all over the shop and dexamethasone 高くする，増すs your emotions, I was crazy, I was really 荒廃させるd and struggling.?

'I couldn't be at home I just used to go out and walk around the streets crying every night.'

But 結局 his dose of?dexamethasone was 減ずるd which helped his symptoms and?'made a 抱擁する difference'.?

Me Windle?収容する／認めるs his young children?Sylvie, 9 and Otis, 6, pictured with his friend James Harvey still don't really understand his Myeloma diagnosis?

After a two month break from 医薬, in November 2022 Mr Windle had a st em 独房 移植（する） followed by two more months of the same 治療.?

Now, Mr Windle is taking the 癌 麻薬 lenalidomide and zoledronic 酸性の, which can?妨げる problems with the bones 原因（となる）d by the myeloma.?

解任するing how he broke the news of his diagnosis to his family, he 収容する／認めるs his young children still don't really understand.?

Mr Windle, whose life is almost '支援する to how it was before', said: 'I told all my adult friends and family but my kids still don't really know.?

'They just knew at the time I had had a really bad 支援する and I had to go to hospital. I was in hospital for Sylvie's seventh birthday, so that was pretty rubbish.

Mr Windle has since 設立する 'hope' by building a community of friends with myeloma who also have the 血 癌 and have had it for 10 to 20 years. Here, he is pictured with his friends?Chris Buckingham (left) ,?James Harvey (centre) and?Neil Gordon (権利) who is 現在／一般に running 1000Km?to raise money for Myeloma UK

'The weeks I got 診断するd were the weeks I was supposed to be interviewing for a headteacher 職業.?

'But I don't go for that anymore, I don't have the energy. I am trying my best but I can't keep going, it's very 需要・要求するing work.?

'The main 問題／発行する is you are just always wondering when it is going to come 支援する. It doesn't go away it comes 支援する for everyone.'

It can be months or years?before the myeloma becomes active again, but at some point 患者s do relapse, によれば Myeloma UK.?

It comes after UK health 長，指導者s this week 認可するd?Nexpovio, a 癌 治療 designed for myeloma 患者s who have become 抵抗力のある to other 麻薬s.?