Dying wish of Chatteris man is to sip a Singapore sling at the famous Raffles Hotel in Singapore

A dying Chatteris man has one last wish – to sip a Singapore sling cocktail at the famous Long Bar in Raffles Hotel where it was first created.

Jonathan Clayton is hoping that the Fenland community will help him whisk himself and wife Rebecca off to the Far East to make his dream come true and has launched a fundraising page.

The couple have been married for nearly two years tying the knot not long after he was given the terminal cancer diagnosis and will celebrate their second anniversary on May 17.

They are hoping that celebration will include the Singapore sling in Singapore.

Jonathan is hoping he will live long enough to make his one last wish a reality as he was given months rather than years to live when he was diagnosed with cancer. The disease is in his tonsils, his lymph nodes and both his lungs and Jonathan says he is only still here thanks to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.

All money raised through his Gofundme page will be used for the week-long trip.

Jonathan said: “You may call me stoic or brave, but the truth is there is nothing I can do to change anything. I just have to accept it and try to concentrate on other things.

“Every morning I wake up with a sore mouth and throat and an achy body. I sound like I have a dose of the flu that we all get, but it’s not flu.

“It has been going on for a year and half and will carry on until my body gives up. I will never get better. I will always be ill. My body will always, for as long as it can fight these cancers.”

Jonathan has to take a cocktail of eight tablets when he wakes up and he has also had chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy, which he says has given him “brain fog”.

There are more drugs to take later in the day, but Jonathan says he tries to live is life as normally as possible with Rebecca and their dogs.

He says: “I have completed ten rounds of radiotherapy, fourteen of chemo and 20 of immunotherapy. To describe how you feel after a chemo infusion is difficult as there is nothing to compare it to.

“Pains come and go and appear in different parts of your body. Post-Immunotherapy is similar but with added aching joints and bones. I do have days when I feel so much better, which is great, and I can get on with things and feel like me again for a short while, but you always have it in your mind that you are dying and at any point something can change drastically for the worst.”

He says he has made peace and has tried to tick as many things of his bucket list as possible including watching cricket in Barbados and tying the knot in Las Vegas.

But money is running out and that is why he has turned to the community for help.

He says: “I feel lucky to have outlived my prognosis and the drugs trial I am on does appear to be helping.”