A father-of-three who was diagnosed with terminal liver
cancer died in a car crash on the same day he was given the all clear.
Jonno Miller, 68, was hailed by doctors as a 'miracle man'
after defying the disease for four years.
He was killed last week when a lorry smashed into his car on
the A30, near Tolvaddon Downs, Cornwall - before he could read the letter that
told him he was cancer-free.
Mr Miller and his wife Angie, 48, were driving back to their
home in Mount's Nay, near Penzance, Cornwall, last Friday when their green Ford
Galaxy was in collision with an HGV lorry on a layby.
Mrs Miller, who was driving, survived the accident with
minor injuries but Mr Miller, who was sitting in the front seat, was killed
instantly. The lorry driver was unhurt.
Mrs Miller later arrived home to find an unopened letter
from the hospital, addressed to her husband, that said his body was
cancer-free.
The couple, originally from Northampton had remote Mount's
Nay after Mr Miller's diagnosis because he did not want his three children and
two stepchildren to see him dying.
He became a patient of specialist Dr. Harry Dalton at the
Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske who decided to persevere with his
treatment, despite his terminal diagnosis.
Mrs Miller said: 'Jonno became known as Dr Dalton's miracle
man. His team at Treliske gave me another four years of love and happiness for
which I'm eternally grateful.'
The Millers' lodger and close friend Ciaran Cardell, a
fisherman, said: 'He was such a genuine, nice person - he would go out of his
way to help anybody.
'He was the nicest bloke I've ever met and I'm more proud
than I can say to call him father - he called me son and I called him dad.
Source- Daily mail
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