A grandfather-of-11 says he is living with a 'ticking timebomb' after his life-saving cancer operation has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Martin Wood, from Dudley, needs to have a cancerous right kidney removed if he is to win his battle with the disease and a date was penned in for September.
But following his diagnosis in April at the start of the first UK lockdown he has been a dealt a second blow with the news that his operation has been delayed due to the second Covid-19 wave.
The 62-year-old, who has stage three cancer, was due to receive the specialist procedure at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.