John Daniels, My Journey with cancer - 037 Doncaster chat, rush to A & E, March 2020

John Cheek went to Doncaster to find John Daniels and his wife Chris and to give John Daniels the opportunity of talking about what came to be the final stage of his journey with cancer. In this episode John gives a lot of medical details ... including the final "we regret we can do no more for you" from the Specialists.

John Daniels first found he had cancer in 2016 and that was where the journey started. In the Autumn of 2018 John Daniels offered to come over to Wirral from Doncaster on a regular basis and update us on his situation and that is where the "diary" series of thirty-eight 15 minute programmes started.  All of these programmes can be found in these podcasts .... look for the white Yorkshire rose that John was so proud of.

John Cheek and myself (Norman) have been privileged to enable John Daniels to tell his story, which John Daniels obviously wanted very much to do. Throughout this series John constantly reminds us that "he has cancer but cancer does not have him". That is reinforced by Andrew Gardiner's "in Christ I have my true identity" music that we have used as the theme tune of this series.

Sadly, John died at home in Doncaster in April 2020, and at that point his journey with cancer ended. But we trust that this series of "diary" programmes maintains the memory of John. And we rejoice that John is now in his Heavenly Home, with the Lord he loves, having come to the end of his earthy journey but the start of everlasting life in Heaven.

We will always remember you John ......... Norman Polden, station manager, Flame CCR.