Sandwell man’s life saved at bingo lung health check
A dad-of-one from Sandwell who received an NHS lung health check is encouraging others to attend their appointment - after a scan detected a deadly aneurysm in his stomach.
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Ex-smoker Paul Nightingale, 62, from Wednesbury, was invited to attend a Targeted Lung Health Check at a specialist scanning van based in the Mecca Bingo car park in Oldbury. The checks are part of a new NHS initiative to detect any early-stage signs of cancer.
But clinicians from Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust found a 9cm abdominal aortic aneurysm instead and two weeks later medics were performing life-saving surgery on Paul.
Paul, who lives with his child Clay and wife Heather, said: “A trip to the bingo basically saved my life. I’d gone along to check-up which only took around 30 minutes, and was told it would take three to four weeks to receive the result.
