Patrick McIntosh skis in deep snow
Posted on 12/29/2014 11:18:13 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
Patrick McIntosh's wife, children and grandchildren think he's gone mad. His business clients think he's joking. And his doctors think he's lucky to be alive.
Yet on Monday, despite the concerns of his family and bemusement of his colleagues, the businessman left home to trek to the South Pole – despite having been diagnosed with three unconnected cancers in less than a year.
"It is perhaps a bit unusual," said Mr McIntosh, 58. "I've never done anything quite as mad as this. But I just want to get going."
For the past few months, Mr McIntosh has been training hard for the December 29 departure – skiing more than three miles a night on a machine in his garage, before jumping into his outdoor swimming pool, which at the moment is at a temperature of six degrees, and lapping the pool as part of fitness and acclimatisation training. He has run a marathon as part of the preparations; walked the length of Hadrian's Wall in two days; and spent hours hiking with a 30lb rucksack on his back or dragging tyres around the Surrey fields.
But his physical training is all the more remarkable given that he was diagnosed with three life-threatening cancers in under a year.
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Patrick McIntosh skis in deep snow
He’ll probably get pecked to death by a gang of penguins.
It’s all gosh, ooh and ahh until he needs to be med-evac’ed out of there and costs some organization or country hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it.
Cancers:
1.) Bowel
2.) Skin
3.) Prostate
Wow.
Now THIS is a story!
“British grandfather celebrates beating three types of cancer in a year with trek to South Pole”
People will be flocking to the south pole in droves with that rate of success. :)
Sounds like a plot from a "Final Destination" movie.
The man has my respect, absolutely. My thinking is that if he was afflicted with this much Cancer at the relatively young age of 58, that means the tendency for cancer is part of his DNA or present condition. Good that he is enjoying himself while he can, because odds are good that it will return. He may want to take a GPS unit or cell phone with him on these snow treks.
Sorry to hear about your story.
Have you researched hydrogen peroxide therapy?
Prayers up!
At the age of Mr. McIntosh I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I was lucky in that it was a neuroendocrine tumor that, even though malignant was slow growing. The doctor said that if the surgery showed it had started to spread there would be no chemo or radiation. They would close me up and I could live possibly 7 years. The 7 year anniversary of my surgery will be January 8, 2015 and I'm still kicking. I had a great surgeon. Steve Jobs had the same kind of tumor I did but didn't listen to his doctors.
At 60 I was diagnosed with and had surgery for prostate cancer. I've also had mohs surgery twice for basal cell carcinoma on my nose and my back. I don't plan on a trek to the South Pole anytime soon but I do 4-5 miles on the treadmill every day and try to keep in shape. I believe that most of my problems (not all listed here)are caused, at least most of them are caused by exposure to Agent Orange when I served in Vietnam in the Air Force. The VA, at least partially, agrees.
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