Steven Fry is in the race against time to raise £50,000 for medical treatment that could save his life.
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00:00 My name's Stephen Fry. I'm 23 years old.
00:04 This is all due to a major brain tumour that made me take a seizure in my fuel tanker in Beelie.
00:10 I remember asking my passenger nurse in training to take control of the vehicle.
00:19 He never took control, and I remember going past primary school
00:23 and the last memory was waking it up in the old shop in Beelie.
00:28 [SIREN]
00:31 I was cut out of the vehicle by the fire brigade and put into ambulance and trained to wait more.
00:37 When I took my seizure, I was shipped off to Aberdeen.
00:41 After I found out I had a major brain tumour, me and my wife both searched the internet
00:47 for things that could help cure the brain cancer,
00:51 due to not being able to have an operation on the brain cancer due to it looking like the brain.
00:56 So I was not able to have anything at all done with that.
01:00 Immunotherapy is a system for this. They actually do this at Rakemore,
01:04 but for different cancers, not for brain cancer.
01:07 So this is only private. I would go to Spain or London for this.
01:12 But it's just shy of £50,000 for this because it's private.
01:17 Just getting there, getting to there as fast as I could,
01:20 would be beneficial to not see my kids now, my wife, for a longer time or period.
01:27 This is what I wish for now.
01:29 About £41,000 still to raise right at this moment.
01:33 Immunotherapy is 200ml of my blood is taken in London, is sent off to Germany.
01:41 Immunotherapy stuff is put into the blood system and back into my body.
01:46 So that's what the whole procedure is called.
01:49 It is proven to work, so I kind of want to get there as soon as possible.
01:54 I have my wife and my kids in the room, and my dogs.
01:58 I'd just be back to where I was before would be nice.
02:01 I rejected chemotherapy in the first place, but my mum and my wife, I know your daughter,
02:07 they wanted me to go chemotherapy to try and live longer.
02:11 Because if I were out of radiotherapy, I think I'd die within seven years,
02:16 and chemotherapy takes it to 14, but that's a minimum.
02:19 It doesn't mean I'd die at the age of 14.
02:21 My wife's pregnant with another kid, and it's due on the 29th of May this year.
02:26 That will be the last kid that I can have due to being on chemotherapy.
02:29 That stops you being able to have any more kids.
02:32 So it's happy, and we have what we want, so it makes us happy.
02:36 It makes us live a pre-life better, especially me losing my mum in September as well.
02:41 So it's things that make me a wee bit happier.
02:44 So it was good to hear about that, so it's still just saved my life,
02:49 and I'm happy with the nation so I can get through.
02:51 So I'll be happy once I'm out of it all.
02:54 But I'll be OK.