It is a strong and inspiring testimony delivered by this 30-year-old young woman suffering from incurable cancer. Life lessons that she shares with everyone.
How should you react when you are told that you no longer have two years to live? This 30-year-old Englishwoman shares her life lessons learned with this terrible diagnosis, like this young 29-year-old widow explaining her grieving journey. Cancer unfortunately strikes all generations. If the young influencer Caroline Receveur is on the road to recovery (and appears radiant in her first shoot since her illness), the actress of Charmed And Beverly Hills Shannen Doherty gives worrying news about her prognosis.
But Megan McClay, terminally ill, chose to share her experience and his words could not be more inspiring. The resident of Wymondham in Norfolk suffers from ocular melanoma, an eye cancer which forms in the cells that produce pigments and which affects only five in around a million adults.
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Inspiring words from a young terminally ill patient
After it spread to the liver, the verdict is in: it will one day be fatal. Present at the exhibition What matters most? in Cardiff, she gives her vision of a condemned person: “I want to remind people to stop and take a break, put down the phone and take time with the people around you”, can we read in the Daily Mail. By always wanting a bigger house, a bigger car, we forget what we really have in front of us, according to her.
Megan McClay may keep her prognosis of two years to live in mind, but she does not want to make a bucket list (a list of things to do) and prefers to do what she wants with her time: “What matters most to me in the face of death is to spend the time you have the way you want, not the way you think you should”. If that means staying home with your cat and your daughter, then that’s what you should do. If, on the other hand, you would like to travel to every country in the world, do it, but without being demanding of yourself. “Don’t put pressure or expectations on yourself just because you are dying. You are still you. You are still the person you were before”, she recalls.
Despite everything, Megan remains optimistic: “The biggest positive is that I’m alive, which a lot of people can’t say”. She also thinks of other patients: “I also see more and more people defying all expectationspeople who live four, five, six years after diagnosis, and treatments are progressing”. She participates in numerous fundraisers to receive a new treatment. A stunning young woman.
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