John Walker Pattison was born in the wonderful seaside town of South Shields 64 years ago.
He is a long-suffering but dedicated Newcastle United supporter; however, there is little doubt that the crucial hinge in John’s life is his beautiful wife, June, and his family. “Nothing is more important than family,” says John.
He recently retired from his post as a senior clinical nurse specialist in haematology at his local hospital, a place that established his cancer diagnosis in 1975; he is humbled to be one of the longest living cancer survivors in the UK at 46 years post diagnosis.
His interests include Native American photography and exploring parts of America unseen by tourists.
Daniel and his best friend, Papa, make their way through a sinister cave, where a crow picks at the little flesh that remained on a pile of bones. The misshapen walls of the cave, embedded with diamonds, glisten and gleam like mysterious eyes watching their every footstep.Into the enchanted forest t...
Me and My Shadow – Memoirs of a Cancer Survivor is a brutally honest account of one teenager’s struggle to understand and deal with the most feared diagnosis known to society: cancer.At 18 years of age, John Walker Pattison was thrust onto a roller coaster ride of emotional turbulence – his in...
No one could tell a tale like Papa, not even Pinocchio…He told Daniel of his fights with lions, tigers and even a great white shark; he had even captured the Loch Ness Monster before letting it go again… Papa claimed to have climbed Mount Everest barefoot and had slurped tea with the queen of En...
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