My dear friend Steve Roberts has just been diagnosed with cancer in his prostate. I'm fundraising to help him and his wife Susanna afford the inpatient treatment he's been offered at the end of July at the Camphill Wellbeing Trust Medical Centre in Aberdeen and its follow-up maintenance programme. This intensive protocol is widely used in Europe and will double his chances of a good recovery by boosting his immune system as well as targeting the cancer cells. Donations of any size are vitally needed and will be much appreciated. Thank you!
In most men, prostate cancer is slow growing and merely kept under observation but Steve's has an aggressive element that needs treatment to stop it spreading. The Gleason Score grades prostate cancers on a scale of 2-10 and his MRI and recent biopsy results reveal a Grade 7 tumour. It is currently localised and Stage 2. As his beloved wife Susanna lost both her father and her mother to cancer they're determined to maximise Steve's chances by using conventional and complementary medicine this time.
The intensive Mistletoe protocol at CWT Aberdeen is a holistic, plant-based, whole-person approach which, in our opinion and according to research and scientific evidence, strengthens the immune system and the life force while directly tackling the tumour. We believe it will give him the best chance of surviving this disease and retaining a good quality of life.
When I met with Steve and Susanna last Summer at Emerson College, Forest Row (below) we were pleased to find each other looking so well.
Steve had only just
retired the previous December. His five-decade long working life was
split equally between the written word (as a journalist, book &
magazine publisher, editor and book seller) and curative education
(first as a Carer and House Father in residential homes at Hohepa, New
Zealand and Bristol, then as a teacher, Letter Press tutor,
Administrator and Trustee in special needs education). He and I met
when we worked together in staff development for Ruskin Mill Trust at
their Freeman College site in Sheffield, but he seems twice as busy in retirement.
Steve is now on the verge of completing his first book - about Creativity and the Writer's Muse - with a second one planned (on William Golding and the double) while simultaneously organising an international conference on Nature Spirits, Elemental Beings and Human Cooperation scheduled for May 2019, and giving public talks and workshops on a variety of subjects.
You will probably remember this fizzy combination of positivity, energy, enthusiasm and wide-ranging curiosity from your own dealings with him!
Please help me to help this husband, brother, stepfather, larger-than-life Kiwi and inspiring friend to very many people around the world get on with the job of living his life to the full while trying to improve it for others.
Every single penny donated will be spent on Steve's inpatient treatment in July, his ongoing home injection maintenance programme and his recovery.
Your positive thoughts, prayers and messages of support are equally valuable.
Steve's email is steveroberts1151@gmail.com.
He is currently feeling fine and is his usual cheerful self.
Thank you very much.
With every good wish,
Alan Miggin
