![]() ![]() 'He told us he couldn't cure Ed but he could buy us a couple more months together.' 'An amazing doctor at Colombia Presbyterian Hospital, Dr Mark Farttini, offered to try him on one more course of chemotherapy. 'We brought him home where he was on a continuous IV drip and sleeping 20 hours a day, but at least he was still alive. 'Then, the palliative care he was being given seemed to make him a little stronger. 'We really thought that was it,' said Ms Tung. Tragically, they did little to slow the cancer's rapid spread and, in December 2014, Mr Schwartz was given two weeks to live. Mr Schwartz initially went into remission, but had relapsed by July 2014.Īfter a string of chemotherapy rounds - the side effects of which included losing his hair and nails and the painful splitting of the skin on his hands and feet - proved unsuccessful, doctors decided to try pioneering medical trials. Mr Schwartz's condition started off as a toothache in 2013, after which he had his wisdom teeth pulled, but after the wound didn't heal and he developed other symptoms, he was finally diagnosed with cancer The first thing he asked after being diagnosed was whether he'd had time to go to Hawaii.' 'Ed was the most positive person about it all. Then I realised that we were being led in the direction of the oncology ward, which I knew meant cancer. 'We were even laughing to each other in the hospital. We thought maybe he had a heart infection,' said Ms Tung. Upon receiving the results, he was advised to head straight to hospital, where medics conducted further blood tests before confirming the heart-breaking news that he had leukaemia. Mr Schwartz visited his GP for some blood tests on November 4, 2013. ![]() ![]() Ms Tung said: 'He ate well, never drank, never smoked but he was so ill that he'd come in after about ten minutes of working out in the garden and sleep for about ten hours.' However, almost a month later, the wound from his surgery had not healed and he began to suffer with fever and would tire quickly. Mr Schwartz began experiencing severe toothache in October 2013.Īfter consulting his dentist, it was decided that he needed his wisdom teeth pulled. Mr Schwartz, pictured with his wife of six years, underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, three medical trials and a stem cell transplant before doctors broke the news that his cancer was incurable ![]()
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