Laugh - I Thought I'd Die - Softcover

Jason Brookes considers himself to be a lucky man. Now in his mid-forties, he's survived a gas explosion and being struck by lightning. But his most serious dice with death was after he was diagnosed with cancer - and had to cope with treatment in Spain while speaking not a word of Spanish. This is Jason's story - and, among much else, a survival guide for blokes who are struggling with serious illness. Jason was born and brought up in Stoke-on-Trent, on the sort of estate where every time you shut a window you trapped someone's fingers in it, and the rent man was called Shintin. After a deprived childhood and a failed marriage, many jobs and a brush with the law, as well as those lightning strikes and explosions, Jason decided to move to Mallorca as a DJ. Then tragedy struck: the diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma. This book tells us of Jason and girlfriend Kerry's battles with foreign hospitals, coping with treatment and its side effects, as well as a strange selection of patients, and the rollercoaster of results and prognoses. Along the way there's a colourful cast of characters, all described in Jason's inimitable style. All in all, Laugh? I Thought I'd Die is a tribute to the power of humour and positive thinking: an inspirational story of how one man stuck two fingers up at adversity and came out the other side smiling.