Sky News about how he fought back after battling not one, but two brain tumours.His first shocking diagnosis was in 2006, which was successfully treated, but he faced a second tumour in 2007 which could have seen his life come to an untimely end.He explained: ‘It was dangerous because the tumour grew very quickly.
I went to bed one night and it haemorrhaged while I was asleep.‘I was lucky to survive… They literally said to me a few minutes more and I’d have been dead.’The dad-of-two said that the second tumour gave him a new outlook on life and made him grateful to still be here.His treatment included five weeks of intense radiotherapy to help insure another tumour wouldn’t grow but it took him a further two or three years to bounce back.
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