and finally some good news for you about
someone who has had corona virus and
recovered George alagar as many of you
will know how stage 4 cancer he's
undergone more than 60 rounds of
chemotherapy and is still having
treatment it puts him of course at a
much higher risk than most people two
weeks ago he went into hospital and
tested positive thankfully he is now
back home in this afternoon I spoke to
him about his experience they did loads
and loads of tests for all kinds of
things one which was was Co bid 19
coronavirus in a few days later like
three four five days later my oncologist
phoned up and said we have fun as far as
the chemo side-effects are concerned but
you do have kovat 19 and actually my
first reaction was well actually if that
was it then I've got away with it
because I had a temperature but I didn't
have all those other really nasty things
that people talk about right now you
know last couple of days I feel not back
to normal but certainly I feel well but
you were one of the people we were most
worried about when all this began you've
got stage 4 cancer
I mean I've had numerous conversations
with you here in the newsroom and we
were really worried about you it seemed
a very anxious time it actually my
friends like you were getting more
anxious I think than I was because you
know to be honest if you've been living
as I have for six years with scans every
every every three months and the whole
uncertainty and sometimes in a very
life-threatening way this didn't seem so
bad to me and there was almost a part of
me that thought well maybe I could get
it and if I could get what you know the
chief medical officer talks of it being
a mild but moderate case of it then I
can actually get it out of the way the
thing with you is you you obviously are
you you've got cancer you've been
treated for cancer and there are an
awful lot of people out there who will
be watching you now who are really
frightened of getting this thing what is
your message to them for all those
people out there living with cancer my
message is is firstly we all know what
uncertainties about we all know what
being in a life
situation is about and this needn't be
like that I don't want to trivialize it
simply because I seem to have had a mild
or moderate case of kovat 19 but
actually the very fact that we're living
with cancer I think gives us an edge
we've we've confronted that those
there's kind of difficult dark moments
in our in our life and in some ways I
think that that we those of us living
with cancer are stronger because we kind
of know what it is like to go into
something where the outcomes are
uncertain and I certainly feel that
having had that experience you know in
my case six years as a as a cancer
patient I went into this feeling feeling
actually quite strongly five five if I
can live with cancer then I could
certainly live with kovat 19 I kept
telling myself that and yeah okay I'm
lucky Sophia I've had it you know in a
mild way but lots and lots of other
people are going to have it in a mild
way to georgeanna God speaking to me
earlier great to see him looking so well