George Alagiah: ‘I have a tumour site in my lower back - I've spent a lot of time in pain'
msn.comaccompany the announcement of its annual Coffee Morning fundraising event later this month. “You can’t get a cancer diagnosis without knowing about Macmillan because they are everywhere,” he explains. “I’m not afraid of vulnerability or saying I am vulnerable, so I’m slightly surprised at myself that I kept seeing these leaflets and pamphlets, but somehow I had in my head that if I go to Macmillan, I would be telling myself it’s over.
That is clearly nonsense. But, at that stage I was getting my head around this disease, and being told I had to sort my affairs out, desperately wanting to get better, worrying about my family and all those different emotions.
Anyone who has lived with cancer will know this. ”The struggle to adapt lasted around a year, he recalls. “There was that sense of abandonment, of ‘God, I am leaving these young men [his sons] and my wife’.
And then there were people saying, ‘come and help us with the campaign’. I definitely remember thinking that I didn’t want to be defined by my disease. ”Now he realises that he has something to contribute. “Each of us has to find our way of doing it.
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