About Hitting Rock Bottom
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Deborah James is joined by fellow stage four’ers Emma Campbell and Darren Roberts to talk about hitting rock bottom, what happens physically, mentally and how they get through the day.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | HEEE! |
| 0:06.6 | HEE! |
| 0:07.6 | MUSIC |
| 0:11.9 | At three o'clock in the morning, I thought, |
| 0:14.1 | I don't think this is worth it. |
| 0:15.8 | And I've never thought that because I look at my kids |
| 0:18.4 | and I think life is always worth it, right? |
| 0:21.3 | But I was basically pulling out the entire contents of my body. |
| 0:26.5 | I was hooking up and coughing up everything. |
| 0:29.7 | I had pain everywhere. |
| 0:31.4 | I just felt like, maybe I should just stop, |
| 0:34.8 | have one last holiday, hope to see my kids |
| 0:37.8 | to secondary school and then die. |
| 0:39.3 | MUSIC |
| 0:47.8 | Hello and welcome to You Me and the Big C 2021. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Deborah James, AKA Ball Babe. |
| 0:54.5 | And for this week's podcast, I'm without Lauren and Steve. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, as you know in this series, all three of us wanted to do |
| 1:00.4 | some podcasts on subjects that are especially close to our hearts |
| 1:04.2 | and speak to people who have direct experiences of these subjects. |
| 1:08.8 | Now, over the past few weeks, I've been facing up to my cancer, |
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