Welcome to My Site
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
My name is David Hillier. I’m 41 years old, have a wonderful wife and two beautiful daughters. Three and a half years ago, I found out that I had advanced prostate cancer. The doctors told me that it would probably kill me within in two years.
We’ve been on quite an “adventure” since my diagnosis and, fortunately, I’m still alive to tell the tale. The future is uncertain as I still have a terminal illness - so I’m trying to do as much as possible with whatever time I’ve got left.
The last few years have, fairly obviously, been the hardest of my life. But because we’re trying to live our lives to the full, they’ve also been some of the happiest time we’ve spent together as a family. In fact, getting cancer has, in many ways, had a positive effect on my life.
If that sounds odd, then hopefully I’ll be able to make it a little clearer over the pages of this site just why I feel like that.
One of the things I most want to achieve in the immediate future is to help raise awareness of prostate cancer and what men can do to make sure they don’t let the disease go unchecked before it’s too late for it to be cured.
To that end, I’ve been trying to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity. I’ve had a lot of help from my friends, and together we’ve been able to raise quite a bit of cash. Last May, twenty of us managed to raise almost a quarter of a million pounds by taking part in a bike ride around the five boroughs of New York City.
This year I’m taking part in a number of bike rides that will hopefully end with me and some good friends completing a mountain stage of the Tour de France (known as the Etape du Tour).
This site will include a training diary setting out how I’m doing in the run-up to the Etape. It will also have links to sponsorship sites and prostate cancer helps sites and some other bits and pieces to give you a better idea of the type of person I am. I hope that you like it and that it helps or inspires you in some small way.
David.