Living with and beyond cancer

Interview 53

I think talking about my experience has all helped me as well to come to terms with it, and I have no qualms about telling anybody that I had cancer.

Interview 135

They say that it changes you and gives you a different look on life, but at the moment I don't think it's changed me at all, I think I'm still the same as I was before.

Interview 136

We’re busy, but I now take time to do what I call ‘sniff the air’. And on a beautiful day like today you stop and you think, “Hey God, isn’t it good to be alive?” And that’s actually I think the difference is that now we take life as it comes, we enjoy life for what it is, which is something that so many people just don’t do.

Interview 110

And I know logically that, you know, we're going to come to the end at some stage of what it's going to be possible to do. But I know that I'll get, you know, good care and good treatment, and, as I said, I'm just hoping that the fact that my cancer is a slow growing one means that they will be able to keep it under control for some time and that there will be possibilities of more treatment in the future.

Interview 85

How do you view the future now?

I'm very much more optimistic. I'm not saying I'm always positive and always optimistic because nobody can be like that all the time. I do have down days sometimes and I do sometimes have doubts and sort of think “Oh what if”, and if I get an unexpected ache or pain sometimes I can, you can, your mind will take over and play tricks on you and read more into something than is there.

Interview 22

Life’s an atlas of dreams and you just turn one page and something else happens. It’s like a book. And having cancer is just a page in the book of life. I’ve turned that page over and I’m moving on. I got divorced. I turn another page over, you know, and I think it, but those pages will always be there, so yes, it’s part of your life.

It’s part of your book of life.