Dave Ismay gets a life
November 22nd 2010 09:36
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Dave Ismay: big spender
What do you do when you are told you have three months to live? For Dave Ismay, a 64-year-old Briton who has spent a lifetime on stage as a comedian, the answer was: make a bucket list.
This Ismay said, was a list of things to do before he kicked the bucket.
His list included buying a Mercedes, visiting Australia, playing golf in Ireland, finishing a book about his life and auditioning for a part in a big pantomime, even though he had no idea if he would live to see the end of the season. Or even opening night.
Ismay won the pantomime role, and crossed all the other items off his list too. Well, all except one. The last one: Immortality. He might have had only months to live, but his sense of humour was surviving just fine.
He crammed all the list's activity into two months, and then returned to the real world by agreeing to independent, second-opinion liver biopsy test.
Ismay's original diagnosis was advanced cirrhosis of the liver, caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Ismay claims he was perplexed by this because, in his honest opinion, he had never been a heavy drinker. But how do you argue with a liver which shows all the signs of taking your life within weeks?
That's why the independent opinion seemed worthwhile. Nothing to lose.
The result of that second opinion deeply shocked Dave Ismay. Essentially, it was this: you aren't dying. You are suffering from hereditary haemochromatosis, a condition which leaves too much iron in the blood. And which is treatable.
Now Ismay has to re-budget the rest of his life. He spent all his savings having fun before he died.
He's cheated death. We suggest he cross immortality off his list as well.
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