Rachel’s dad was fit and healthy when an incredibly simple act revealed the killer disease that left him ‘childlike’ within 48 hours. This is her message to anyone suffering like her [Video]

A woman who lost her father to brain cancer has opened up on how she grieved her dad before he had even died after the disease left the fit and healthy bus driver ‘childlike’ within just 48 hours.

Peter Pattenden, 59, from Wodonga on the NSW-Victoria border, died in March 2020 just months after doctors discovered tumours in his brain.

Mr Pattenden was once a fit and healthy bus driver who even featured on the front page of his local newspaper after completing a 52km swim in the Hume Weir in 2012.

He became known as the Wodonga Raider’s unofficial mascot when he dressed up as a Viking and played his electric guitar to the delight of the crowd. 

However, when Mr Pattenden lost his balance trying to put on a pair of socks in late 2019 his partner knew something was wrong and rushed him to hospital. 

Doctors attempted to remove the tumours during gruelling 12-hour surgery at …