Dad lost half his face after eye cancer was ‘misdiagnosed as migraine and a sore throat’
Danny Hunt had to have his right eye removed because of the damage the cancer has caused to his face
A FATHER-OF-FOUR was told he was just suffering from migraines - before doctors discovered he had deadly eye cancer.
Danny Hunt, 58, had to have his right eye removed along with a bone in his nose and jaw because the cancer had eaten part of his face.
Brave son Stephen, now 24, spent two years helping his dad clean out anything that got stuck in his nose after the surgery.
The Londoner began suffering severe headaches and throat infections in 2008, but his GP diagnosed him with laryngitis, while hospital staff said he must be suffering from migraines.
A lump next to his eye just kept getting bigger and bigger though, until specialists at Moorfields Eye Hospital told Danny and wife Mandy that he had a nasty form of eye cancer.
After his right eye was removed in 2009, the previously fit and healthy dad needs full-time care.
The former gardener's weak state has left doctors with no choice but to fashion a "flap" using skin from his back and an artery in his leg to cover the hole in his face.
A heartbroken Mandy said: "He was healthy, energetic. He used to work 16 hours a day.
"He just wanted to give his kids everything.
"They expected him to die."
Mandy says Danny is "skeletal" from not eating and is embarrassed to be seen in public with part of his face missing.
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She said: "Children see him and laugh at him. The little ones just don't understand.
"I can't believe what we have been through."
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