Clare Byrne

And why did this have to happen to me?

Which is, I think, what we would all be doing.

There was one thing that you did in the book a couple of times, I think, where you got news from doctors and you kept it really tight.

Yeah.

um just your sister and and your partner and you left it at that and i thought how did you do that and then i wondered whether your athletics career helped with that because sometimes when you were injured you didn't want any of the competition or the coaches to know that you were injured so you kept that really tight so was that practice for keeping stuff back from your family when you felt that you needed to

You did, of course, but you were I mean, that time over Christmas where you you held back.

I mean, I think if it was me, I'd want to tell my mammy and, you know, my daddy straight away.

And but you didn't.

You said, no, I'm not going to ruin Christmas for them because that's what you felt the news would do.

And you kept it to yourself.

I don't blame you because it's just so tough.

Do you know what?

It's so unfair.

I know, and I've heard that from people before, rather than saying, you know, why me?

It's a case of saying, why not me?

You know, this can happen to anybody, but it doesn't make it any easier, does it?

So then you had that prognosis and then you had the results of the PET scan, which were good or more positive, right?

So when will you have the next set of scans and tests done?

But there's also and I know you make a point of this towards the end of the book.

There's the bit about living your life as well.