Chris Johns

Yeah.

and try saying month's mind to a Brit.

Wouldn't have a clue.

A British Catholic wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about.

We've gone way over time and I haven't had a chance to even introduce the topic of your column last Saturday or one of the main topics that you raised in your column.

And I'm just wondering whether we should start it now because we've gone way over the time or whether perhaps we should leave it to another discussion.

And brain surgery.

Yeah, so as you say, it's deeply personal.

It's not advice.

My wife was a doctor and ironically worked as an oncologist in the cancer hospital that she ultimately came to be treated in, so loads of ironies.

She knew.

She knew.

She knew from the first moment the diagnosis was given exactly what was going on, and she chose that treatment.

Why?

she had a conviction she knew all the data she knew that the particular cancer that she had that five percent of patients lived for five years so that the odds were very much against her but she had a belief a conviction that she would be one of those five percent and a treatment would buy her five years it didn't the median expectation for this particular cancer is 13 months and that's what she got

But she always had the hope or belief that she was buying herself five years with the treatment.

That's right.

And that's what all of the research suggests.

My own personal experience is that it takes time.

And the length of time is a variable.