Dad given six months to live after brain tumour diagnosis is defying the odds years later

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A dad with terminal cancer is still defying the odds years after he was given just six months to live. Dave Bolton has told how his life changed overnight after he woke up to paramedics in his bedroom.

Eight years ago then then 33-year-old was rushed to hospital after having a 15 minute nocturnal seizure and later discovered he had a brain tumour.

Thinking back to that night, Dave recalls going to bed ready for his daughter's birthday the next day and waking up unaware of what had happened. Read more: "We'll never have enough police to deal with it": The town where people say parents need to 'get a grip' after kids were banned from Morrisons Dave told the Liverpool Echo : "I just remember wolfing down a bowl of cereal because I hadn't eaten properly, knowing I had to get up in the morning and going to bed - and then coming around at about quarter to midnight with paramedics in my room.

I'd stopped breathing and it transpired I'd had a 15 minute nocturnal seizure but when I came around I was just groggy so I tried to to kick them out of the house. "The paramedics were really good, they said 'Dave what do you do for a living?' And I said 'I'm in the police.' They said 'well where do you work?' And I said 'I don't know.' 'What's your date of birth?' 'I don't know' - and suddenly I realised." The dad-of-two underwent surgery to remove the tennis ball sized tumour at the Walton Centre and had to take medical retirement from his job as a detective sergeant for Merseyside Police.