Healthwatch: Simon McCorkindale
Kris Baker
LONDON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- British actor Simon MacCorkindale said he was
diagnosed with bowel cancer more than three years ago and it has since
become terminal.
The 57-year-old actor, who held the role of Harry Harper in the BBC series
"Casualty," told The Sunday Telegraph while he was initially diagnosed in
2006, he and his wife, actress Susan George, decided to keep his condition a
secret.
MacCorkindale said while his doctors were initially optimistic regarding the
surgical possibilities of hindering the disease, he learned a year later his
cancer spread to his lungs and was terminal.
"The news hit me like a sledgehammer because right up to that point, I
thought I had beaten bowel cancer and it was all done and dusted," he said.
MacCorkindale told the Telegraph while doctors estimate he may have only
three years left to live, he intends to prove them wrong by fighting the
disease.
"I don't want people to think that I'm pale, losing my hair, losing weight
and on the way out. I'm not. I'm as active as I've ever been," said the
actor, who is receiving a six-month course of chemotherapy.
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For those who don't recognize the name, you might remember
the late and unlamented short-lived US TV series "Manimal".
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Kris
--
"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for
directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes
several million sperm cells . . . to locate a female egg,
despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the
size of Wisconsin."-- Dave Barry
islanders
Alan Ramsey
Rolling Stone at Manimals' expense. In an
article about the upcoming TV season, she
wrote, "Misfits Of Science is proof that
"NBC will keep remaking Manimal until they
"get it right."
Mark
Death on the Nile in which he played, appropriately, the lover. No one
ever looked hotter or studlier wearing a polo shirt and riding a horse
in the Egyptian desert. I hope he beats it!
La N
I have always thought his wife, Susan George, to have been one of the most
gorgeous actresses. This is very sad news indeed.
- nilita
Kris Baker
news:VoKJm.52036$PH1.48563@edtnps82...
They've been married for 25 years; they've got to be good people,
to make it that long, in that business.
Kris
R H Draney
>
>Merrill Markoe got off a great line in
>Rolling Stone at Manimals' expense. In an
>article about the upcoming TV season, she
>wrote, "Misfits Of Science is proof that
>"NBC will keep remaking Manimal until they
>"get it right."
And now they've remade "Misfits of Science" as "Heroes"...Merrill's got
*powers*....
> Manimal. A legendary bad show
An unsuccessful attempt to make up for "Pink Lady and Jeff", methinks....r
--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
La N
> Alan Ramsey filted:
>>
>> Merrill Markoe got off a great line in
>> Rolling Stone at Manimals' expense. In an
>> article about the upcoming TV season, she
>> wrote, "Misfits Of Science is proof that
>> "NBC will keep remaking Manimal until they
>> "get it right."
>
> And now they've remade "Misfits of Science" as "Heroes"...Merrill's
> got *powers*....
>
More importantly, I bet Merrill Markoe is glad that David Letterman is no
longer her SO ..;)
- nilita
R H Draney
Based on everything I've seen of the two of them together, I suspect that
nothing he's admitted recently was much of a surprise to her, nor that it would
have bothered her a great deal if it had come out when they were still an
item....r