Hi, I am Glenn Utteridge #glennthecancerwarrior, a 44 year old father with currently inoperable bowel cancer and not ready to die yet.
I'm raising money for future cancer treatments to help save my life or at least prolong it. Below are the series of
unfortunate events that occurred in the first part of 2023, resulting in being unconscious, 6 fractures, major surgeries
and the discovery of advanced cancer.
At the start of 2023, I was a fit active 44-year-old-dad enjoying life with my wife looking after our
two children aged 7 and 10 until the 6th of February. Whilst cycling I was hit by a coach in a serious
road incident; thrown off of my bike knocked unconscious and resulting in fractures to my back and neck.
Whilst in hospital, scans also revealed stage 4 colon cancer that had spread to my liver. Just 4 weeks
later after, shortly after being released from the hospital, I was re-admitted to hospital for an emergency
operation with open surgery to remove the original tumour along with diseased colon to fix a blockage.
In the following 2 to 3 months I endured severe finger blisters (losing several fingernails)
and fainted hitting my head knocking me unconscious and fracturing my jaw in 3 places requiring further
emergency surgery to insert permanent metal implants into my gums.
Those first few months were extremely tough. In the first couple of weeks post jaw surgery
I had limited mobility, my hands were still bandaged from the blisters, I could not talk much
and needed to take food in liquid form through a syringe. With the support of my loving family
and others, I fought hard to recover quickly from the surgeries to get back onto treatment. In
addition doing everything within my control to help, including diet, exercise and well being.
Despite recovering from these traumas, I'm still likely to die from cancer
The tumours in my liver are currently inoperable and I have a rare BRAF mutation
which is hard to treat via standard treatments with average survival rates typically
measured in months.
At 44 years old, I am determined to do whatever it takes to see my
children through more of their school years and spend a bit more time with my wife whom
I married 2 years ago once COVID restrictions were lifted.
Cutting edge treatments and alternative treatments may help:
There are some very promising newer privately self funded drugs and therapy available
outside of what is usually covered. For example adoptive cell immunotherapy via Japan.
Combining a personalised cancer vaccine designed to effectively teach the immune
response to target the cancer tumour and metastases, plus creation of artificial cells
designed to enter the body and attack the cancer. Each round of treatment is self funded
with costs totalling typically £20k to £30k. Inside the UK not all treatments are available
via NHS or private cover. In particular naturalpathic supplements which can help block the
various different pathways a cancer uses. These can become expensive but are important to me
to add to my treatment.
Finally having seen the difficulties of this chronic illness and how difficult the situation is in the UK vs other countries,
health allowing I am and plan to use time to build awareness, hopefully improving the situation for future
sufferers and helping to prevent more instances of this detectcable illness
Please visit my
gofundme page to support me.
Thank you for reading my story and please support me as every donation via this
page makes my dream come a bit closer to reality. Thanks Glenn aka #glennthecancerwarrior