Once you have battled cancer, your view on life changes, dramatically. So much so this week a local cancer survivor is looking at the world from a breathtaking new angle.
Seven years ago, Ian McBean thought he had only months to live when a test revealed a cancer - which he was first told was treatable - had spread to other parts of his body. “My world was turned upside down. There is no feeling in the world like it when you are faced with the prospect of dying. Everything changes immediately. Things that seemed so big and fearsome before, are just petty and unimportant,” Mr McBean said.
Seven years later, Mr McBean now holds the distinctive title “cancer survivor” but he says the true heroes of the long war against fighting cancer are his loved ones.
“My family means the world to me."
This week Mr McBean is a long way from home. In fact he joins a keen group of passionate Whitsunday hikers from the Whitsunday Anglican School community, including his son Francis, who are climbing one of the most notorious mountains on earth Mt Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity.
This gruelling seven-day hike will lead them 5895 metres up Africa’s highest mountain and through some of the most beautiful wilderness in the world.
“We hope to raise around $7000.
“This is going to be a great trip. The chance to spend time with my son, my family, means the world to me,” Mr McBean said. The group will return to the Whitsundays around June 30.
Everydayhero.com.au/whitsunday_anglican_school_climbers is the place to donate.
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