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Ciara Mageean

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The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

It is.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

Yeah.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And it's one of the I had an appointment with a well-renowned sports psychologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Steve Peters.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

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.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

But there was a message that we were going through and it's a very simple one.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And it seems quite harsh if somebody says it to you up straight, but he has a principle on the chimp paradox.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

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.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And I definitely identify that.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And he goes, but the world is not fair and life is not fair.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And so sometimes in those moments, as harsh as that seems sometimes,

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

I remind myself whenever I think why am I going through this I'm like well life's not fair so

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

Yeah, I definitely did.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

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.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And they showed that the tumour cells in my bowel were

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

currently inactive, the tumour cells in my lungs were inactive and that they had greatly reduced in my liver.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

There was still three patches that were active.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

But even if I referred to them glowing on the screen, they were glowing at a much dimmer light.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And so it showed that I was responding to the chemotherapy, which was amazing.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

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.

The Claire Byrne Show
Ciara Mageean Irish Olympian and European Champion athlete

And