Jonnie Irwin has shared the first signs of cancer and recalled the devastating moment he told his wife it was terminal. The 49-year-old Place in the Sun star revealed his terminal cancer diagnosis last year, Birmingham Live reports.
He has bravely battled on and says he is determined to make the most of every minute with with children Rex, three, twins Rafa and Cormac, two, and beloved wife Jess. He said: "I had to go home and tell my wife, who was looking after our babies, that she was on her own pretty much. That was devastating. All I could do was apologise to her. I felt so responsible."
“It's amazing to think I too could speak to my wife and children after I pass away," he told the BBC earlier this year. "My diagnosis has taken a lot from me but it has given me the ability to prepare.
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“The only way to make sure your digital legacy is as you like it, is to take control now," he added. “I'm going to take every opportunity to do that for the people I love.” The ex-estate agent was first diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2020 but kept his diagnosis secret until November of last year.
When he revealed that he had been living with the disease, he also explained that it had now spread to his brain - and made the heartbreaking admission that he 'doesn't know how long' he has left to live. Since then he has been very open about his on going battle against the disease, and in February the property guru told fans he had begun Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - which involves a hyperbaric chamber is a highly-pressurised room or tube where a patient is given pure oxygen to breathe.
It's thought flooding the body with concentrated oxygen can help make cancer cells easier to kill with treatments like chemotherapy and radiation while also activating the healing process in a patient's body.
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