WHEN Clint Nield developed a cough, cold and fatigue he shrugged it off as "a bit of man flu".

But the dad-of-one almost died when his symptoms turned out to be aggressive blood cancer.

Clint, 46, of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs., fell poorly in October last year but thought he just had a bout of seasonal flu.

As well as brushing it off as "man flu", he thought his illness had come about because it was "just that time of year".

But over the next two weeks, Clint's condition began to deteriorate and he was rushed to an emergency doctor by his wife, Joanne, 48.

He was then sent to A&E at Burton Hospital in Staffordshire, where tests determined that he had deadly acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

Clint, who works at The Entertainer toy store, said: "It started off as a bit of a cough an

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