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It was a regular kind of afternoon. I
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was laying in my hospital bed, my
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hospital room there. I'd had a whole
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range of different sort of tests and
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procedures in the days preceding this.
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And I guess I knew at that point that
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something was was really wrong. I didn't
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know what it was. I didn't really expect
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that it would be cancer either, but I
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did know that it was going to be bad,
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whatever it was. And so lady who I'd
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never met before came into the room and
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she sat down on the bed beside me. She
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went on to explain just very slowly uh
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very calmly that I had Yeah. Yeah, that
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I had cancer, that I had burkets,
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non-hodkkins, lymphoma, and explained
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that at that stage [music] they'd found
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it through my uh brain lining, eye
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sockets, nasal passages, sinuses, gums,
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jaw, spinal fluid, pancreas, and through
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both of of my kidneys. She sort of
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talked me through what the options were
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in [music] in terms of treatment. I say
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options, it was sort of the option to
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have treatment or or not. For me, I was
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always set on on having that treatment
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because, you know, in my head, there was
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no alternative other than than getting
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through [music] it. If you didn't get
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treatment, the other option, how long
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how long do they
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>> uh about about 2 weeks?