George Alligator, as many of you will know, has Stage four cancer.

He's undergone more than 60 rounds of chemotherapy and is still having treatment.

It puts him, of course, at a much higher risk than most people.

Two weeks ago, he went into a hospital and tested positive.

Thankfully, he is now back home.

In this afternoon, I spoke to him about his experience that loads and loads of tests for all kinds of things, One of which was was Kobe.

19 Corretta bars in a few days later, having 345 days later, my oncologist phoned up and said, We're fine as far as the chemo side effects are concerned.

But you do have Cove in 19.

Andi.

Actually, my first reaction was, Well, actually, if that was it, then I've got away with it because I had a temperature.

But I didn't have all those other really nasty things that people talk about right now.

The last couple days, I feel not back to normal, but certainly I feel well.

But you one of the people we were most worried about when all this began.

You've got stage four cancer.

Numerous conversations with you here in the newsroom on we will really worried about you.

It seemed a very anxious time it and actually my friends like you were getting more anxious, I think, than I was because, you know, to be honest, if you've been living as I have for six years with scans every every every three months and the whole uncertainty and sometimes in a very life threatening way this didn't seem so bad to me on there.

Waas Almost a part of me that thought Well, maybe I could get it.

And if I could get what you know, the chief medical officer talks of being a mild or moderate case of it, then I can actually get it out of the way.

The thing with you is you You obviously are.

You got cancer, You've been treated for cancer.

And there are an awful lot of people out there who will be watching you now who are really frightened of getting this thing.

What is your message to them for a while?

Those people out there living with cancer, my messages is firstly, um, we all know what uncertainties about We all know what being in a life threatening situation is about on.

This needn't be like that.

I don't want to trivialize it simply because I see had a mild or moderate case of Covad 19.

But actually, the very fact that we're living with cancer, I think, gives us an edge.

We we've confronted that those there's kind of difficult, dark moments in our in our life, and in some ways I think that that we those of us living with cancer, are stronger because we kind of know what it is like to go into something where the outcomes are uncertain.

And I certainly feel that having had that experience, you know, in my case, six years is a as a cancer patient, I went into this, um, feeling feeling actually quite strong.

If I if I If I could live with cancer than I could certainly live with Cove in 19 I kept telling myself that Andi Yeah, Okay.

I'm lucky, Sophia.

I've had it in a mild way, but lots and lots of other people are going to have it in a mild way too.

George Aligarh speaking to me earlier.