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Life can be so much better when you don’t have much of it left.
It sounds odd, and it still even feels a bit odd reading it back now, but I have to say it’s true. My life has been turned around since getting the news in July 2018 that I had six months to live.
And I want to share it because it makes for a great life, if you want it – without the tragic ending that comes with mine.
What I’ve learnt, you can use now, without having to “get your affairs in order”.
I’m not ‘that’ guy. The cancer guy, or even someone who ever took a day off work. I’m just like you.
I get the whole thing when you hear cancer stories, they just seem so far away from you. Like, “Yeah that’s a sad story but it will never happen to me”.
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Cancer is so ubiquitous it almost doesn’t register when you hear someone you know has got it. It goes by in many cases because it’s become so normal, and it’s been de-sensitised, because so many people have it.