Shane Ross

It's the breaking of it, which is so strange because you go in, you think you're going to get the diagnosis you do to get, you think you've got cancer anyway, but you can't hope you don't.

And when you're told it,

you're kind of shot because your life immediately changes that minute.

And you have to say for the doctors and the medical system, and everybody gets a terrible knocking from everybody, including me.

Once they got you there, they just move.

It's quite an extraordinary experience.

you're out of action immediately almost into doing tests, chemo and radiotherapy and all that.

Your life is just gone and devoted to that for maybe three or four months.

So that's a tough bit.

But it's a great thing to kind of get better.

You do feel very grateful because you are facing some pretty unnerving moments during those few weeks.

And so it's great when you feel you're recovering and you know you're recovering.

Yes.

Oh, yes, I was.

That's why it's three years after 2023, which is when it happened.

Yeah, I was well into it.

I was actually, it was due to come out, I was three quarters of the way through.

And I had to abandon that at that stage.

And we had to kind of reposition it as a result because the publishers, Atlantic, were very good about it.

They just said, fine.