At some point 1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer.
I was the same as you whenever I read that stat, I just always felt sorry for the other guy. Plot twist… you will occasionally be the other guy.
In June 2025, after a completely random visit to the doctor, I was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia, which despite its fun sounding name, isn’t exactly a barrel of laughs. Sh** got real quite quickly.
Up until then, I was a healthy, active, happy and successful man, heading into middle-age with carefree abandon. Life has a funny way of humbling you.
As someone who’s lived their life in front of a camera, microphone or audience, my knee-jerk reaction was (no, not to monetise it) switch on the recorder and talk myself through it - making sense of my diagnosis (what even is Leukaemia?) the impending chemotherapy, my family and how our lives had been flipped on it’s head.
Look, there are tons of these podcasts out there, by some incredible people with stories far more horrific than mine (spoiler alert - I’m typing myself this a year later) - but if a perplexed, foul-mouthed audio diary from someone who once interviewed Jedward in a carpark is your thing, you’re in the right place.
Jamie
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