Andy takes the biscut !

Following my theme of crazy things colleagues have done following my diagnosis I have to report that my headcase friend Andy Warrender has finally lost the ability to differentiate between pain and fun (and this is not even a sleaze story). We began to doubt this when he took up running over the scottish mountians with neighbours as a hobby, but we were persuaded by the story of the summer barbie in the neighbourhood and after the usual few beers the chaps egging each other on. Then he took up running in Singapore, the worlds biggest outdoor sauna, and we began to doubt him a bit.

However he told me today that heard about my diagnosis, and other colleagues serious problems, all in one weekend in Salt Lake City where he happened to be with Pete Goss who has done a fair bit of motivational speaking for us http://www.solarnavigator.net/pete_goss_mbe.htm (Pete is by the way a real hero and a fantastic speaker on life and carpie diem). So the bold Andy decides he is going to live life to the full and go on a walking expedition to the North Pole next April ! Top that....

Apparently they have a few hundred miles to walk from their base camp, weather is tipically below -40oC and they are pulling their own stuff and camping, camping at -40oC ! So we are in awe, he is the chief nutter. Having said that knowing Andy and his legendary discipline he will manage it fine, wearing Goretex, having trained in gyms around the world while continuing to run our division with Rudi. Good luck Andy if you are reading this!

I am researching two much more mundane possibilities for my celebration, learning to fly or an old Aston Martin, we will have to see how the investigations turn out, at least neither put my fingers and toes at risk !

So we now have an open competition on "the biggest nutter" and another open suggestion forum on "what would you do to celebrate an all clear, or even do anyway ahead of time to live life to the full" I will be the referee just like in Rugby its my blog so my decision is final ( I will think of some prizes along the way) so far Andy is way out in front, followed by Johns M5, the only person who could come close might be Kevin in Hong Kong - any crazy plans to pitch in with Kevin ?

Cheers for now time for "House" on the TV, by the way I am fine, worked all day and keeping busy so looks like chemo2 is done ! Next challenge is learning to inject myself with growth factor ahead of chemo3, the syringes are sitting in the fridge....but thats next weeks challenge.

Gerry