Richard Scolyer

family issue, a work issue, a research issue that we're doing.

I want to get on and get things done as well as my own treatment.

I'm sure I was a pain to be a patient of such brilliant medical team.

But yeah, so there are definitely changes in getting used to cancer.

And yeah, I definitely had ups and downs of things and how I handled them, little things.

And you...

I think it's natural that you tend to take things out on the people who are closest to you.

And Katie especially has been a tough journey for her.

The neuro-oncologist who's looking after me, I remember in the first meeting with her, she said...

this is going to be, it's usually a tougher experience or job or words like that for your partner than it is for you as the patient.

And, yeah, well, it definitely hasn't been an easy thing.

Kate's been incredibly kind and supportive and, yeah.

Yeah, I guess that's true.

And perhaps that's what makes it harder for me to accept that I've got cancer than other patients.

I don't know.

Yeah, it feels different.

Yeah, I don't know.

But I know, I wonder, they talk about, I don't know, this field, that world.

And I'm certainly getting some psychological help to help me go through this journey.

But I understand there's sort of four phases that people go through.