Accrington man, 43, dies from prostate cancer (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Accrington man, 43, dies from prostate cancer

5:50pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010 in

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A 43-YEAR-OLD man has died from prostate cancer following a four-and-half year battle with the disease.

Glyn Fielding, of Cambridge Street, Accrington, was diagnosed after doctors in Tunisia discovered he had an enlarged prostate when he was taken ill on holiday.

Around 11 months later doctors in the UK confirmed he was suffering from prostate cancer.

Glyn’s wife Carol, 46, said her husband, a former security officer and assistant manager of the Little Chef at Rising Bridge, went ‘down hill’ 10 days ago and became progressively worse until he died last Thursday.

Carol said: “I said to Glyn it was okay to go, that I knew he didn’t want to leave, but his mum, dad and brother were waiting for him. He said ‘they will have to wait’.

“He always said he didn’t want everybody standing around crying, so we wanted to make his last day a happy one.

“We got out all the old photos from when Glyn had big hair and I had big glasses and we sat and laughed at the photos and the memories.

“Then just after eight o’clock in his last two breaths I gave him a kiss to say goodbye and he passed away. When he died the pain went out of his face.

“He was my world. He was my husband and my best friend. I will miss him forever. He is here in my heart.”

Glyn leaves children Reece, 15, Deborah, 25, Phillip, 28, foster daughter Sinead, and grand-children Sophie, five, and Benjamin, three.

Carol said thank you to Peel House Medical Centre, East Lancashire Hospice, district nurses Andrea Logan, Janet Peel, Julie and Dr Gavin West-wood.