I have been battling stage 4 cancer since November 2018. So far I have received over 40 rounds of chemotherapy and had numerous operations including a having my primary tumour removed, a liver resection and now also have a colostomy bag. Despite this I am living a good quality of life and feel great.

However the disease is now confined to my lungs where I have numerous tumours. Unfortunately four of these tumours are growing and have become chemotherapy resistant. Left untreated these pesky four could cause me significant problems and increased the chance of the cancer spreading to other areas. So on advice from my oncology team I have decided to undertake targeted radiotherapy (Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy SABR) to get rid of these four.

I am hoping that this treatment will give me the chance to live a longer and happy life. I’m not ready to give up and want to make many more happy memories with friends and family.

Being diagnosed with cancer has understandably been one of the most challenging times of my life both physically and mentally. Dealing with the shock and initial diagnosis was hard but I have always tried to stay positive. I think it is my positivity that has help me already outlive the dire prognosis of 16 months. My operation was the most physically challenging thing I have ever been through, sickness and severe pain for an extended period were not easy. Thankfully I think the operation was a success and definitely the right thing to do.

Similarly although the SABR treatment is not curative, I'm confident that it will give me a huge advantage on continuing to fight my battle for many more years to come. I am doing everything I can to fight this, changed my diet to be focused around eating more vegetables, reducing alcohol intake, exercising regularly, paying privately to access 'off label' drugs such as metformin that may slow the spread of the cancer and seeing a nutritionist and taking numerous supplements.

I want to continue to live as normal life as possible and with your help I believe I can do that for a long time. I've previously said I will do anything to fight this and this includes this crowd funding. Please be assured that all money donated will go solely towards funding medical treatment. If there is anything left over it will be saved in the event of needing further rounds of SABR. After this, anything left over will be donated to charities linked to the QE hospital Birmingham who have provided me with world class medical care for many years going back nearly 20 years. I am be eternally grateful.

If you would like to help me, please donate what you can.

Thank you.

Corrie Walker.

A few words from Corrie's wife Angela

I just wanted to write a few extra words about Corrie's treatment and how this fund raising and treatment could extend his life.

The year Corrie was diagnosed had started off as a good year, we had moved house and had been planning on extending our family but everything changed that November. At first, we hoped Corrie’s tumour was contained to his bowel, and would need some sort of chemo and maybe an operation. However, after further tests we were sat down and told not only had the cancer spread to his liver and lungs but statistically he would be lucky to survive 16 months.

Words cannot express how we both felt and to go have to go home and face our daughter and think that she might lose her dad was horrendous. How we ever got through that Christmas I'll never know.

We have been very lucky to have had a lot of support of our friends and family, people's kindness has been overwhelming at times. Over the last 3 years we have had so many ups and downs. We constantly have a Cloud of uncertainly hanging over us but we have learnt to manage it, mainly because of our daughter! Ellie is now 6 and accepts that Daddy has to go to the QE a lot.

It also helps that Corrie is amazing and has kept his sense of humour.

He has been an inspiration to myself and Ellie. One of the worst things he went through was his operation. He had his primary removed and part of his liver removed all at the same time. He was in a lot of pain after and his wounds got infected. It was horrendous.

I remember coming back from visiting him at the QE and picking Ellie up and putting her bed and just crying for him. It was terrible. However, the op has kept him alive and hopefully this new treatment will give him more time for a cure to be found. Corrie so inspiring to me and Ellie in fact we think he should write a book!

Any donation would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Angela

If you would like to read more about the treatment i will be having, take a look here https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/treatment/types-of-treatment/radiotherapy/external-beam-radiotherapy/stereotactic-ablative-radiotherapy-sabr