Indeed it is - when that chemotherapy is coursing through your body and you feel so ill that as a sane and rational human being you ask yourself is life worthwhile and would it be better if you gave in - but you carry on for the sake of the people that love and encourage you - but you are so close to giving in and surrendering to oblivion. How can YOU ever know unless you have experienced that awfulness. I hope that you never will. I have.
What Armstrong means to me as both a cyclist and a cancer survivor is the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. He is a truly remarkable man, and as he says: Its not just about the bike.
Lance Armstrong I salute you. You are man among men. You give hope to so many people.
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I read some of Armstrong's biography. It's amazing how he managed to
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back from that illness.
I liked the bit where a nurse asked him to test his lungs by trying to raise a little ball in a tube by blowing into it. "Give me that f*****, if it had a bell on the top it would have gone PING"
Also his comments the other day about the French public cheering on a known drugs cheat like Veronque and booing him were interesting.
