Have you made any changes to your lifestyle as a result of your leukaemia?

No, no, not really, though I could have used it as a, you know, excuses for, you know, stopping smoking, stopping drinking, all sorts of things, not that that affected leukaemia of course but I, you know, I could have said, Well, now I’ve been given, not a second chance but, you know, I should sort of smarten my life up. But I didn’t, no, no.

But you’ve had other illnesses as well, so
Oh yes, yes, yes.

t’s not the first time you’ve faced that kind of thing.

No, no, as I say, I’ve had melanoma, at the moment I’ve got prostate problems, I’ve got, I keep forgetting what they are, I’m on piles of sort of medicines. But so I’m well used, until I reached the twenty-first century I’d never been in hospital, nothing, and then suddenly bang, everything happened. So the last six years I’ve been in and out of hospital and so that’s why I get involved with medical things now because I’ve got some patient experience. But no, since a couple of things have happened. In fact I have actually finally done the thing that, you know, I haven’t been, you know, I’ve stopped drinking completely, I’ve stopped smoking completely, so those have been some more achievements. But I can’t say I necessarily feel much healthier for it. My bank balance is doing well. Yeah.

And you didn’t do those things specifically because of your leukaemia?

No, no, no. No I don’t think it impacted, no, not really, no, no. Sonbsp;