A DAD said he pleaded for his future when he was told by doctors that an appointment to talk about lifesaving treatment was cancelled.

Terry Playle, of Toothill, says he will be in a wheelchair in less than 18 months without the stem cell treatment. He believes it was his last chance to get his life back.

He was due to go to the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital on June 28.

But at the last minute he says he was told the appointment had been pulled.

A spokeswoman for The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust said: “We don’t comment on individual cases. In cases such as this a referral from a consultant neurologist is required before organising a clinic appointment.”

The dad to son Jackson said: “I was pleading for my life over the phone and now the opportunity to have my life back and be myself again has been lost. I had pushed and worked so hard to get this treatment for a long time, to then be told 24 hours before I was due to go up that I had been pulled made me feel physically sick.

“The pain you have to go through to prove the treatment will make a difference is like no other, to be honest with you it is excruciating. I should already be in a wheelchair, but I can’t give up. If I continue this way I will struggle to have any existence. I want my son to see his dad how he used to be when I was active all the time with him, that’s all I ask.”

Terry, 37, was diagnosed with the illness five years ago and it has rapidly damaged his immune system. The former bricklayer was fit and active, is now almost housebound. He says his last hope is to go abroad to Russia for the treatment and the family is trying to raise £50,000 to secure the procedure. So far they have raised £8,500.

To help visit gofundme.com/giving-terry-a-chance