How one Preston man's DIY accident led to an 'out of the blue' cancer diagnosis
In 2020, Steve Brown from Preston was building a fence panel outside his home and suddenly experienced a sharp pain. At the time, he was talking to someone with a cup of tea and forgot his DIY project was there and accidentally walked into it.
As the timing of Steve's diagnosis coincided with the coronavirus pandemic, Claire reflects on the fact she was unable to accompany her husband to his appointments. "I'd sit outside the hospital and stuff like that, or sit at home and wait," Claire stated. Ever the positive man, Steve then went for a week of radiation therapy and afterwards, continued on his climbs, with a walk up Snowden, then Mynydd Mawr. Upon his return, he underwent another scan which showed his tumours had shrunk by 50% again and the immunotherapy was still working.
"I'm just going to try and kill him off walking now!" Steve found his course of treatment particularly hard as he's a self-confessed "busy bee", meaning he's always been used to keeping himself active and has had to succumb to the illness and resting as much as possible. "This cancer could stay at bay, or it could come back. So it's sort of living with that. So, every time a scan comes round, you think, oh God and you get a little niggle or he'd get a pain in his side when he's waiting for his latest result and you think, oh is it cancer? Is it back?"
The couple will also be completing walks in Yorkshire and in the Lake District. Amongst these walks, Claire and Steve will also be climbing various mountain summits, including Snowden and on the 30th day, the very last day of the challenge, they will be undertaking the Yorkshire Three Peaks - Ingleborough, Pen Y Ghent and Whernside.
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