Doctors told me I had less than six months, three years after am still here

HELENA, Mont. — A judge in Montana has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay $59,000 to aWinston man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy wrote that the distress Mark Templin and his family suffered was caused by Dr. Patrick Morrow's "negligent failure to meet the standard of care" in delivering the diagnosis in 2009.
Molloy's decision noted that in the months Templin believed he was dying he quit his job, sold his pickup truck, celebrated a "last" birthday, bought a prearranged funeral service and contemplated suicide.
The Independent Record reportsthat as Templin began to feel better, he underwent additional testing that determined he had instead suffered several small strokes. For six Mark prepared to die. Were it not for his son -- who stopped him from killing himself with his gun and the concern of a hospice nurse who took him for re-evaluation, he would have learned that doctors had misdiagnosed him. While thinking he was dying, Templin quit his part time job, sold his truck and signed a " do not resuscitate" order, which he posted to the refrigerator. He prepared his funeral and his son - inlaw built a wooden box for his ashes. His family, wife Marion and four grown up children, gave him a "last birthday" dinner.