A DAD has revealed how his life has been shattered into pieces after he was given just months to live following a devastating terminal cancer diagnosis.

Lee Rawlinson, 51, was diagnosed with inoperable stage four pancreatic cancer on October 31 after battling persistent pain since January.

The dad-of-two, who lives in Leigh with Darcey, ten, Marley, six, and his partner Faye, has been told he has just months to live and has already started conversations around end-of-life care.

Now, Lee has made it his main aim to make extraordinary memories with his children, as well as raising awareness of symptoms after his cancer went undetected for months.

He said: “I was told I had a lesion in my pancreas, and that they had found another in my liver. It is inoperable stage four pancreatic cancer, that was the news.

“I asked how many years I had left, and they said months. It was that brutal and I have two kids. I started panicking about how I will pay for this.

“It was all really scary and that is when I broke down for the first time.

“I said I want to see my kids grow up, I want to see them do things, but I came to terms with dying. I have months, and my main aim is to make some extraordinary plans.”

Lee initially went to his GP at the start of the year but his cancer did not show up on blood tests and his symptoms linked to a potential type-two diabetes diagnosis.

Months later, following a CT scan, he was told a tumour had been found on his liver and he was given the fatal diagnosis.

Lee added: “I am trying to keep things normal for my children. From 16, I wanted to be a dad and what are my chances of becoming a dad at 41, to have two of them.

“It was a dream come true, and I feel lucky to have experienced this, to be able to say goodbye to them.

“This is my last Christmas 100 per cent, we are going all out to make dreams come true.

“I want to go back to when my kids thought their daddy could do anything.”

To donate to Lee and his family, justgiving.com/crowdfunding/rawlinsons