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I’m an old hand at cancer. I’ve had it nearly half my life

I live with pain as with an old friend one would prefer to distance oneself from

29 October 2015

9:00 AM

29 October 2015

9:00 AM

I remember the exact day my illness first declared itself. Twenty-seven years ago. Thursday 20 October 1988. My then wife and I were at a viewing of Harry Hook’s The Kitchen Toto at the Strode Theatre in Street when I felt a sudden, crippling pain in my back. Being 35 and a grown-up, I tried to ignore it.

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