An incredibly sad but typically eloquent and brave piece of writing by one of Jersey’s most respected journalists.
Yesterday I found out I will die soon.
A half hour video call with my oncologist in Southampton concluded I have a life expectancy of six to twelve months as my cancer is terminal.
The nasties growing between my heart and lung that three months of “salvage chemotherapy” had shrunk earlier this year have come back to life, but there are now more, and the expectation is they will continue to do their thing, possibly making their way to my liver, my brain and elsewhere in my body. They’re inoperable. There isn’t a treatment left to get rid of them.
I’m apparently unusual (I knew that!), with my oncologist seeing only one such case of this rare cancer each year.
There is a chemotherapy treatment that has the potential to add a few extra weeks, maybe months, to my life, but the trade off is the loss of quality of…
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None of us can imagine what it must be like to face death in this way – sad, brave words. ❤️
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Thank you for sharing this piece, Roy. Gary is a strong man and such an eloquent writer. I guess no one knows how they would react to such devastating news. My hope is the doctors are wrong, as they often are. Praying for Gary and his family.
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I loved reading this beautiful and sensitive piece. To realize that the virus is also precluding him and his husband from a final cruise seems like it’s adding insult to injury. The year is even suckier now (and it was already dreadful).
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Wow. Thanks for sharing this, Roy. You’re right, so sad, but also so eloquent. Certainly reminds us all of what’s important and how we can never take anything for granted.
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Such a poignant post and thanks for sharing it, Roy.
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Thanks for sharing that. Poor Gary, a very touching blog.
K
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Oh, Roy. So hard to read and yet I’m so glad he wrote it. Thanks for sharing.
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