Valerie his CLL was picked up by a junior doctor. He wasn't exhibiting any signs of being unwell, but his white blood cell count was elevated.

A friend of ours also has CLL, and is on no medication either.

According to the doctor, the ruptured bowel could have been happening over a period of time, but the symptoms are often vague.

Yes glioblastoma is deadly. It's hard to know what to do in the situation. Essentially doctors are stalling the inevitable. The survival rate is hideously low.

"His sepsis was the reaction of his immune system disrupted by the loads of antibiotics injected in his body pre/post surgery."

When I eventually got the final death certificate (his was subject to a coronial enquiry) it said: Sepsis due to jejunal diverticulum.

"Jejunal" means relating to the "jejunum," which is the middle section of the small intestine, located between the duodenum and the ileum; essentially, it refers to something connected to the middle part of the small intestine in anatomical terms

So many questions post death, Valerie.They haunt us.