Hamilton mother and son confront final stages of cancer a year on from 20,000km Peru mercy dash
13 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Ryan Grieve laughs then cries remembering the time he forgot how the sun felt on his skin.
He d spent a month indoors, dealing with pain that made soft sensory comforts irrelevant. I was on bedrest for a month just from ascites [fluid build-up] and pain and whatnot where it kind of felt like being skinned alive for quite a long time, Grieve says. After a month I went outside and I d forgotten what the sun felt like, and just thinking about that, yeah… does get me teary. It didn t actually hit me til I went inside. Then I was like oh man .