Collapse at home revealed tragic cancer diagnosis

A MAN from west Wales was found collapsed on his bathroom floor by police who later realised he’d been there for four days. Mark Causey, 61, had dropped his wife Rosalind off at her mum’s home in Margam for a few days and he returned home alone where he had planned to have a normal week doing some DIY.

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But Rosalind said she had sensed something was wrong when Mark had failed to contact her. Using the webcam they'd had set up in the house in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, via her phone, Rosalind could see on the recordings how her husband had been “dishevelled and staggering” around the house and after that she could not see him at all.

She recalled: “Mark had driven me to my mum’s home in Margam village as her health was declining and he returned home to do some DIY. I became very worried on the Friday, I couldn’t reach him. I checked our webcam and saw the previous Monday’s footage captured him looking dishevelled and staggering. Then there was no more movement anywhere at home; something was wrong.