Ciara Mageean
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Appearances Over Time
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It is.
Yeah.
And it's one of the I had an appointment with a well-renowned sports psychologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Steve Peters.
And it was post Paris and I was processing that, which, you know, seems like insignificant in comparison to the journey that I'm on now.
But there was a message that we were going through and it's a very simple one.
And it seems quite harsh if somebody says it to you up straight, but he has a principle on the chimp paradox.
I won't get into it, but he was like, there's a part of your brain that thinks the world should be fair and that everything should be fair.
And I definitely identify that.
And he goes, but the world is not fair and life is not fair.
And so sometimes in those moments, as harsh as that seems sometimes,
I remind myself whenever I think why am I going through this I'm like well life's not fair so
Yeah, I definitely did.
I had that prognosis from the physical scans and then the PET scan is the one that shows up activity in tumour cells in your body.
And they showed that the tumour cells in my bowel were
currently inactive, the tumour cells in my lungs were inactive and that they had greatly reduced in my liver.
There was still three patches that were active.
But even if I referred to them glowing on the screen, they were glowing at a much dimmer light.
And so it showed that I was responding to the chemotherapy, which was amazing.
So I was like, OK, well, this is good because I can maybe pepper in the bad news and give, you know, everybody says you should have that like that little sandwich of good, bad, good.
And