Julie Drysdale talks about her cancer battle

Julie Drysdale talks about her cancer battle and taking part in the Cancer Research Race for Life

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00:00I definitely believe the mammogram that day saved my life.

00:12The most important thing is get checked early and for anybody that's worried about anything

00:19go and get a check, don't postpone it.

00:30Janice had, my consultant, Slimware consultant had said we were going to do Race for Life

00:44and that was another motivation for me.

00:50So I got myself gathered up and was really looking forward to it, raised a lot of money.

00:56It was lovely.

00:57A great bunch of people to be doing things with and I say the support from them is mighty

01:04for everybody.

01:05Professor Kirk is straight to point consultant, he's very good, he has looked after me well,

01:11his staff are fantastic.

01:16I cannot praise them enough for and thank them enough for saving my life.

01:21I got engaged on my birthday, my 60th birthday in July 2023, Ian proposed to me.

01:30Well Ian, definitely Ian's been a mega support.

01:34My colleagues, work colleagues in family meeting service in Lisbon are second to none.

01:41My sisters, Cathy and Suzanne, they have been there for me every step of the way.

01:50My best friends, Elaine and Angela.

01:54My dogs, yes most important, my dogs, yeah if it wasn't for them I don't think I would

01:59have got out of bed.

02:00I can't do anything, I can't change what has happened.

02:06I don't know what's, and nobody knows what's going to happen in the future and I thought

02:10I'm just going to live.