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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1838
24 - 30 Sept 2020
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FIGHTING SPIRIT he discovered brochures for the Cancer Support Group (CSG). Philip and Meg got through the worst of the chemo, not only with the support of CSG, but thanks to family, neighbours and friends. Philip said, “This unsolicited, but nevertheless incredibly welcome psychological, emotional and logistical support, began to feel medicinal in and of its own right. I became determined to go to war on CREDIT: Philip James Baber
A TRUE fighting spirit lies behind the challenge Philip James Baber set himself to swim the 555 kilometres “in and out of every nook and cranny” around Mallorca’s coastline to raise money for the Cancer Support Group. In May last year, Es Capdella resident, gallery owner and poster art producer James received the devastating news he was suffering from a grade 4 cancer which had unfortunately metastasised. Philip said, “The tumours littered my body. They were growing and on the war path, heading towards my spinal cord and vital organs. “Both physically and spiritually speaking I felt like I was falling into a black hole.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Philip with wife Meg and their two young daughters. But both Philip and his wife Meg were determined to turn the situation around. He radically changed
his diet, gave up drinking and prepared himself mentally for chemo and radiotherapy. It was when he was be-
ing fast-tracked into the system at Palma’s Son Espases hospital that
the disease until I had it nipped in the bud. I felt like I had an army of warriors backing me up.” When Philip and Meg moved to Mallorca in their 30s they were “super-fit and feeling invincible.” Philip admitted, “We never foresaw how quickly a medical crisis could manifest, how could we ever have dreamed how rapidly the community here, with CSG over-arching it, would come to help save the day.” Fundraising for the Cancer Support Group is now “paramount” for Philip.