A Routine Backache. An 11-Day Coma. Stage 4 Cancer. He’s 28.

25/11/2025 48 min Temporada 2 Episodio 12
A Routine Backache. An 11-Day Coma. Stage 4 Cancer. He’s 28.

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Harry Lambert is 28 years old, a dad to two young daughters, and last year he walked into A&E with back pain. He expected antibiotics. Instead, he was hours away from kidney failure, poisoned from the inside, hallucinating, and being put into an induced coma on Christmas Day.When he woke up 11 days later — unable to walk, talk, or breathe on his own — the doctors delivered the news he hadn’t even been conscious to hear: Stage 4 lymphoma.What follows is a story that doesn’t feel real: – misdiagnosis and delays that nearly cost him his life – kidney shutdown and hallucinations before the coma – full-body scans lit up “like a Dalmatian” – chemo that didn’t work – losing his vision for weeks – sepsis striking out of nowhere – preparing silent goodbyes to his children – a compassionate-access drug worth £140,000 a cycle – relapsing within a week of stopping – a last-chance treatment designed for lung disease – brain radiotherapy – and finally, against every odds, full remissionBut this episode isn’t just survival. It’s about what a second chance does to a man who thought he’d never see his children grow up.Harry talks plainly about life after the coma, how it feels to re-enter the world after months inside hospitals, and the way everything — work, money, priorities — collapses into clarity when you realise time is the only real currency.Today, he’s using that second chance for something bigger: raising money and delivering gifts for children fighting cancer, starting with a little girl named Betty who’s facing her seventh round of chemo. Harry is building a charity, one act of light at a time, because he refuses to waste the life he fought so hard to keep.This is the episode you don’t skip. This is the episode you send to someone who needs perspective, strength, or proof that even in the darkest moments, people come back.Donate to Harry’s Christmas Toy Drive: https://gofund.me/8a9000e8dSend us a text

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