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John Walker Pattison

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Born

in South Shields, The United Kingdom

Website

https://johnwpattison.co.uk

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Children's, Nonfiction, Memoir

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Oglala Lakota Sioux Nation.

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June 2021

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John Walker Pattison's life is a testament to resilience, passion, and the power of dreams. Born 1957, in the coastal town of South Shields, his early years were marked more by mischief than academic prowess.

He started working life in a local shipyard until the spectre of cancer gripped his future in a deathly stranglehold—a diagnosis doctors believed he would not survive.

Today, over fifty-years later, he is humbled to be one of the UK's longest cancer survivors.

Yet eight years after his unexpected recovery - his four-year-old daughter is diagnosed with terminal leukaemia.

He went on to become a cancer nurse consultant, at the very hospital that made his diagnosis, almost fifty years ago.

He retired from his nursing post, partially due to ...more

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February 2024

Growing up in South Shields, England, a small seaside town on the North East coast, I have lived with the legacy of cancer for almost half a century, and I remain humbled to be one of the UK’s longest cancer survivors.

Still, many would argue that is a negative life experience – but, for me, and ironically, it has made me who I am today. Lucky or fortunate - privileged or simply destined to be a s Read more of this blog post »

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“To children everywhere; let your dreams take you wherever you want to go.”
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“Remarkable stories for remarkable children.”
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