1
00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:04,840
Speaker 1: We was proud to support the Relay for Life and

2
00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,160
Speaker 1: support of the Mid can Mid Canibary Cancer Society. Sat

3
00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,080
Speaker 1: today from ten am at the Showgrounds and the man

4
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,560
Speaker 1: who is cutting the ribbon on the thing getting us

5
00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,920
Speaker 1: underway is Paul Hands. Welcome on in.

6
00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,200
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It was not just me though,

7
00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,280
Speaker 2: there's two hours with me, my co captain Sharon Duhnston

8
00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,240
Speaker 2: and my granddaughter Ruby.

9
00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,720
Speaker 1: Oh, that'll be pretty cool. So they're all helping with

10
00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:26,840
Speaker 1: RETA on the day.

11
00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,080
Speaker 2: The biggest thing is to get Ruby to do it

12
00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,240
Speaker 2: so I can hide in the background.

13
00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,240
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure you're good for at least one photo.

14
00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,200
Speaker 1: So talk us through your story. You're a survivor, yes.

15
00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,200
Speaker 2: I and so I have been. At my six years

16
00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,320
Speaker 2: of age, I was diagnosed with prostate cancers. So I

17
00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,800
Speaker 2: went through eight weeks of radiation and then twelve months

18
00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,960
Speaker 2: after that we were diagnosed with a tumor and a

19
00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,920
Speaker 2: liver an eteen you're in the crime tumor cheat but

20
00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:02,440
Speaker 2: then massicized into my liver. And at time of diagnosis

21
00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,559
Speaker 2: they said my lover looked a bit like Swiss cheese.

22
00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,600
Speaker 2: It was as much poor tissue as was gosh.

23
00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,040
Speaker 1: So what did you do well.

24
00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,080
Speaker 2: The biggest thing, of course, is the amount of time

25
00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,640
Speaker 2: it takes to go from having procedures to find out

26
00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,000
Speaker 2: what sort of cancer it is to the time getting

27
00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,280
Speaker 2: the diagnosis of which one it is, and how we

28
00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,400
Speaker 2: go forward with whatever action plan we have. So, because

29
00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,160
Speaker 2: this net is a very fast act and cancer, you

30
00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,160
Speaker 2: don't have a lot of time. But every biopsy or

31
00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,440
Speaker 2: chlorospy you have, it's always a week or so before

32
00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,200
Speaker 2: you get the result or you can move on. And

33
00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,640
Speaker 2: that is a very very hard in the head. You'd

34
00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:42,959
Speaker 2: have to.

35
00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,000
Speaker 1: Say, yeah, oh, I was going to ask about that.

36
00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,280
Speaker 1: Because they say one in three of us will face

37
00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,920
Speaker 1: cancer at some stage in our lives. It's got this

38
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000
Speaker 1: terrifying stigma around it. You know, as soon as you

39
00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,240
Speaker 1: hear the word you think, oh my goodness. So that

40
00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,600
Speaker 1: was a mental struggle. How do you navigate that?

41
00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,800
Speaker 2: Is well, you're going forward, so you're just trying to

42
00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,120
Speaker 2: find a way around all that and then get a

43
00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:08,040
Speaker 2: diagnosis because my brains, I'm an electrician, logical brain, I

44
00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,519
Speaker 2: need to have some sort of diagnosis. And then when

45
00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,920
Speaker 2: we got that, which was Paul, if things don't go

46
00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,560
Speaker 2: well for you for this first but of a chemo.

47
00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,840
Speaker 2: You've probably got four to.

48
00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,600
Speaker 1: Six weeks cheaper, So how did it go?

49
00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,080
Speaker 2: Luckily it did go. It's an interesting thing. I asked

50
00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,880
Speaker 2: the on cologist how will I know if the chemo

51
00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,520
Speaker 2: was working? And they said, you'll know, simple as that.

52
00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,280
Speaker 2: And I said, I couldn't believe. What's the story? So

53
00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,200
Speaker 2: about the first round of chemos So it was liquid

54
00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,720
Speaker 2: infused into the straight in the vein, and they was

55
00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,960
Speaker 2: going to have two days of tablets after that, but

56
00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,639
Speaker 2: they said we won't give you the tablets because they'll

57
00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:48,240
Speaker 2: probably kill you.

58
00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:50,840
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a pretty simple choice.

59
00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then they fill you full of drugs to

60
00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,200
Speaker 2: make it feel good before you take chemo anyway, so

61
00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,239
Speaker 2: you're wait until that fizzles out. But five or six

62
00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,920
Speaker 2: days later after that round, and I actually tapped my

63
00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,080
Speaker 2: wife on the shoulder, have I still in the morning

64
00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:04,880
Speaker 2: and said it's working.

65
00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:05,919
Speaker 1: It was that quack.

66
00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,560
Speaker 2: That was wow? And just how you felt from being

67
00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,160
Speaker 2: real crap and yeah to saying, well I'm on the

68
00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,519
Speaker 2: perky side this morning. What's going on, cheaper?

69
00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,079
Speaker 1: And how we now? Are you in remission?

70
00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,440
Speaker 2: Well that's no longer detectable.

71
00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:21,400
Speaker 1: Wow.

72
00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,000
Speaker 2: And if you if you look up and I don't

73
00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,600
Speaker 2: want to be blowing my own trumpet because I'm a

74
00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,239
Speaker 2: very hope to think quite sort of guy. But as

75
00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,320
Speaker 2: a message of hope, I suppose I was told that

76
00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,720
Speaker 2: the chemo, if it worked, would give you another team

77
00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:37,960
Speaker 2: to twelve months, and that would be that.

78
00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,520
Speaker 1: And how long are we so now?

79
00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,000
Speaker 2: So now we're five and a half years post the

80
00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:44,160
Speaker 2: last of play.

81
00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,680
Speaker 1: Oh that's outstanding, isn't it.

82
00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,840
Speaker 2: Well? No, but there's no rhyme or reasoning why that.

83
00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,320
Speaker 2: There's so many people out there attached by TENSER, either

84
00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,520
Speaker 2: themselves or their families, who do not have a result

85
00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,240
Speaker 2: anywhere near as good as what I've had.

86
00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what a way to be able to support them?

87
00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,320
Speaker 1: And you know shear stories like yours. The Cancer Society,

88
00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,080
Speaker 1: how much did they help you?

89
00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,360
Speaker 2: Well through the especially through the temo, sorry the first

90
00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,800
Speaker 2: round was prostate cancer. They were very good for driving

91
00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,520
Speaker 2: up to christ Church because you've got to go eight weeks,

92
00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,440
Speaker 2: five days a week, so they will supply drivers or

93
00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,640
Speaker 2: if not, they can help if you're a bit down

94
00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,880
Speaker 2: on the money for petrol money. And as an organization,

95
00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,920
Speaker 2: of course they're non funded by anybody else but themselves,

96
00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,400
Speaker 2: and well currently I'm still part of a Monday morning

97
00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,359
Speaker 2: yoga class. You have to better come down. It's very energetic.

98
00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,039
Speaker 2: Good sleep for about half an hour.

99
00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,200
Speaker 1: That does sound a bit of me.

100
00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,080
Speaker 2: We work on mindfulness there you go.

101
00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,880
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, look what a way to get behind them

102
00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,799
Speaker 1: and in yourself. It's going to be such a stirring

103
00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,039
Speaker 1: and motivating day at the showgrounds. Anybody's welcome with team.

104
00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,280
Speaker 1: Registrations have now closed, but everybody is more than welcome

105
00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,479
Speaker 1: to come on down and share in that generosity on

106
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,080
Speaker 1: set today from ten a m. And yourself and the

107
00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,760
Speaker 1: members of the family. They're wielding the scissors getting us underway.

108
00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,200
Speaker 1: Paul hands to look forward to catching up some more there.

109
00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,559
Speaker 2: Eh okay, yeah, Team Green Mile, where we go, Let's

110
00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:10,839
Speaker 2: do it.

111
00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:11,960
Speaker 1: Cheers for coming by, Ma,