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Karate keeps mum fighting fit
The Standard
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7/21/2023
Camperdown mum Janet Biddle has taken up Karate which has helped her after cancer treatment and heart surgery.
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Why is it so important to you to be able to do karate?
00:03
For my health and my well-being and most of all I suppose my mind because
00:10
my mum had dementia and I don't want to suffer from that
00:15
but it's it's it does have everything I need.
00:19
Yeah. And you've had a rough couple of years haven't you?
00:22
I've had a rough five years, six years I've had a rough years.
00:26
Yeah. Yeah and it's helped you recover from
00:30
cancer and your heart surgery? Yeah and bring my diabetes under control
00:36
and my arthritis I mean I'm not I'm not even on tablets for my arthritis.
00:41
Yeah. I mean it's just I just wish people would realise just how
00:48
great it is. It's not just there for exercise it's
00:52
there for your mind for your whole lot, your whole well-being. Yeah.
00:57
Yeah and when were you diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?
01:02
2018. Yeah and how did that make you feel when
01:06
when the doctor told you? I was scared I thought I was going to die
01:13
but my main thoughts were on Beck and my son
01:16
how they would cope without me. So yeah.
01:22
And karate's really helped you fight that? Oh yeah has it ever.
01:27
I mean I'm here with my kids
01:31
and that's all I want and my little dog but she's been really good she's
01:35
behaving herself.
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