Cancer and Pisces

One man's story of his unique survival of cancer, interwoven with the joy and succour of fishing

Mick May (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2020
Quiller Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84689-333-9 (ISBN)

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In 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked cancer, mesothelioma; seven years later he is flourishing, with a long life-expectancy ahead of him. Mick's medical journey makes for a fascinating read as it weaves from the pain of his many treatments to the pleasures of his fishing trips to many British and exotic rivers.

In 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked cancer, mesothelioma, whose average medical life expectancy is 10 months.

Seven years later he is flourishing, full of joie de vivre, with a long life-expectancy ahead of him. His case has made medical history and is giving new hope to a multitude of terminally ill cancer sufferers around the world.

Mick's medical journey makes for a fascinating read as it weaves from the pain of his many treatments to the pleasures of his frequent fishing trips to British and exotic International rivers. Threaded into this are snapshots of Mick's creation and leadership of a leading offender rehabilitation charity; his deepening religious faith; his successful legal action against the merchant bank whose offices exposed him to asbestos in the 1980s; his chairmanship of a school ravaged by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, and the happiness of his family life with his remarkable wife and six children.

On leaving the University of St Andrews, Mick May spent twenty years in finance where increasingly he saw himself (pretty accurately) as the worst banker in the City of London. His second career saw him set up and grow the social enterprise Blue Sky, once described by David Cameron (again pretty accurately) as “the only company in the country where you need a criminal record to work there”. Over the past decade and a half it has succeeded in employing almost 2,000 released prisoners. In 2016 his work with ex-offenders was recognised by the award of an OBE. Since retirement on medical grounds in 2015 he has chaired the boards of a couple of charities and an academy. Mick is married to Jill and they have six children. He is an avid reader of history books and an extraordinarily keen angler. He continues to fish to this day.

Foreword
My world changes: 20 May 2013
The beast and the beauty: late May and early June 2013
Why?
My formative years: 1958–1986
Prayer
My own personal Capuzzo: June–July 2013
The family arrives: 1987–2002
Reckoning ~ the start of a long process: September 2013
Oncology and Sanjay Popat
Managing chemotherapy
Making good on a promise: 26 May 2014
Approaching maturity: 2003–2012
A long-term future for Blue Sky
Outshone and nearly defeated: 21 July 2014
The kindness of strangers: 25–27 August 2014
Trout: 2015
Tackle–tackle: July 2015
Reckoning ~ the end of a long process: April 2016
A better day than might have been: 20 June 2016
Expectations upturned: July 2016
Lille: January 2017
The meaning of loss: early June 2017
Respite of sorts: late June 2017
The seeds of the miraculous: October 2017
Going home: July 2018
At sea: August 2018
‘Celebrate tonight, come on’: 29 September 2018
Hope springs eternal: 17 October 2018
Girl power
Don’t cry for me: Argentina, 13–18 January 2019
Up the Varzuga: 11–17 May 2019
An advance in the treatment of difficult cancers: Professor Sanjay Popat
A pause to the saga
Acknowledgements
CRUK Donation

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Verlagsort	Shrewsbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
ISBN-10	1-84689-333-X / 184689333X
ISBN-13	978-1-84689-333-9 / 9781846893339
Zustand	Neuware