Patrick McIntosh skis in deep snow
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.
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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