Hairy Bikers' Si King opens up on when he first heard Dave Myers' cancer diagnosis. Source: BBC
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00:00 Well, when I first got the call, what went through my mind was disbelief.
00:05 I drove away for the weekend to France.
00:07 I was on the motorway, 8.30 at night, I can remember it, in the rain.
00:11 And the phone went, and it was the doctor.
00:14 And he said to me, "Oh, well," he said,
00:17 "I know you're a strong-minded man, so I can tell you this over the phone.
00:21 "We have found something, and, um...
00:24 "Yes, you've got cancer."
00:28 Well, when I first got the call, what went through my mind was disbelief.
00:32 I think in a...
00:34 ..in a kind of refusal to...
00:38 ..believe it, in a way.
00:42 It's the word, isn't it? It's the word that everybody fears.
00:48 When it got real, I think, was the first time he went for chemo.
00:55 The first lot of chemo was very, very destructive.
00:59 I felt destructive.
01:01 The first oncologist I had said, "We're going to take you to the edge,"
01:05 which was like, "Wow, thank you very much."