"I was angry at myself": Pompey legend Alan Knight on cancer diagnosis
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00:00Without boring everyone again with the story, I was lucky if that's the right word, but I got
00:20a test. I had to go into my own doctor's surgery for a pre-diabetes regular blood test. I'd had a few symptoms regularly, having to get up in the night to go to the loo, a few pains here and there in the groin areas, but I'd put that down to the fact that I'd had two hip replacements in the space of a year, really.
00:46So I spoke to a couple of mates, Trevor Inchby, one of them, he was an apprentice and a young pro at the club a long time ago when I was, and we've stayed friends ever since, and I spoke to Trevor and he said, well, go and get yourself a PSA test. He said, it won't up, give it a go.
01:07So I was just talking to the nurse. I mentioned to her, how would I go about getting it? And she said, well, I can add it to the blood test that you're doing.
01:18So I went, okay, fine. That was a Monday morning. On the Wednesday morning, half eight in the morning, I get a phone call from a surgery saying, Dr. Stanley would like to see you at half ten this morning.
01:31I went, okay, not even thought anything about the PSA test, thought it was going to be about my diabetes. Went in and saw the doctor, said, your level's really high.
01:44As I said, 32.1. And so I said, well, can I have an examination? I had the examination. And he said, yeah, it's grossly enlarged.
01:58I'm going to put you on a fast track, fast track, suspected cancer referral. And I'm sort of sat there. And once that word cancer is mentioned, it's like, wow.
02:13But I've got to say, from that moment on, I was through all the scans we spoke about, MRIs, bone scans, CT scan, biopsy.
02:25The longest way was getting to get the prognosis. So that was always, although I did feel like obviously there was from what I learned on that journey, always the sort of knew it was going to be a cancer diagnosis.
02:45But obviously once we got in and he said it had spread, it was cancerous and it had spread into the hip and it was stage four and then I'd sort of switched off.
02:59Lucky enough, I'd have her with me and she remembers what he was talking about because at that stage I'd zoned out.
03:08Once I'd heard stage four, yeah, you always feel the worst.
03:15Like it's said, you should feel the first one I'll really feel like you never grew up being in heaven with anyone.
03:17I feel like I thought my mother is stuck.
03:19I don't know.
03:20I don't know.
03:22I never feel the first husband ever.
03:24I like it as like the baby away.
03:27Love your leg.
03:28And now I can see.
03:31I'm not expecting that like singing to you and I was waiting for those two of us walkingingly, and knowing who's knew that, you can't get it down and understand.
03:35Oh, my God...
03:40Or?