Hairy Bikers’ Si King opens up on discovering Dave Myers had cancer

Hairy Bikers' Si King opens up on when he first heard Dave Myers' cancer diagnosis. Source: BBC

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00:00 Well, when I first got the call, what went through my mind was disbelief.

00:05 I drove away for the weekend to France.

00:07 I was on the motorway, 8.30 at night, I can remember it, in the rain.

00:11 And the phone went, and it was the doctor.

00:14 And he said to me, "Oh, well," he said,

00:17 "I know you're a strong-minded man, so I can tell you this over the phone.

00:21 "We have found something, and, um...

00:24 "Yes, you've got cancer."

00:28 Well, when I first got the call, what went through my mind was disbelief.

00:32 I think in a...

00:34 ..in a kind of refusal to...

00:38 ..believe it, in a way.

00:42 It's the word, isn't it? It's the word that everybody fears.

00:48 When it got real, I think, was the first time he went for chemo.

00:55 The first lot of chemo was very, very destructive.

00:59 I felt destructive.

01:01 The first oncologist I had said, "We're going to take you to the edge,"

01:05 which was like, "Wow, thank you very much."