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'Dave became too ill to speak. Losing his hair made him feel repellent. We both knew what was coming and I had to make a decision...' With extraordinary bravery, Hairy Bikers widow LILI MYERS reveals the story of his cancer battle for first time
The night times are the most difficult. It's been three months since my husband Dave died and, while the days are busy enough for me to push my thoughts and feelings aside, at night I'm alone.
It was their first time in Romania and they were starting work on their debut series, The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook, which had been commissioned after a pilot episode had delivered an astonishing 2.7 million viewers for BBC Two. He decided to tell people in a typically honest way and it made sense to drop it into conversation on the Agony Uncles podcast he’d started with Si in 2022, keeping details vague and saying nothing of the prognosis or the type of cancer – a decision I continue to honour. Socks, once such a thing of joy for Dave with his jazzy collection so intrinsic to his sense of style, would leave painful grooves on his shins, so I tried to find loose knitted pairs that wouldn’t hurt as much.
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