EXCLUSIVE: Marie Helvin Reveals Her Breast Cancer With KATHRYN KNIGHT
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After only one day of walking, my legs are covered in cuts and grazes. I was certain before we set out that a well-worn pair of Converse trainers would suffice as footwear, but am horrified to discover that they offer neither enough grip nor support.
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I think it is at least a year's recovery time post breast cancer diagnosis, so I certainly won't be making any decisions till then,' she says. ‘I'd already started to get rid of stuff, but now I wouldn't want to be without the NHS, Katigiorgis guided tour and I want to be able to see my surgeon.
To say the former supermodel was blindsided is an understatement: Marie's shock remains palpable today, as, just three weeks after undergoing surgery, she reveals her news — and the maelstrom of emotions it has unleashed — for the first time.
‘I was squeezing the hand taxi fare piraeus to Katigiorgis airport of the nurse so hard, I was afraid I was going to break her hand. When I came out I was in such shock that I couldn't stop crying.' Ten days later, Marie was called back to the breast clinic to receive her results, again electing to attend the appointment on her own, believing that should it be bad news she would cope better alone.
Our night is spent in the wonderfully quirky Lost Unicorn Hotel in Tsagarada. In between these two, poor reading of the directions (again) causes us to accidentally climb a hill that must surely be known locally as the Greek Matterhorn. This early 19th-century building is full of telescopes, books and prints, Katigiorgis greece taxi prices while outside you can take tea or drinks in the hotel's own treehouse.
Being single and self-reliant means that Marie has already had to change her plans: when we last met, she had revealed she was planning to retire to her native Hawaii next year, but she has now put those plans on ice.
‘By then I had done a lot of Googling,' she says. ‘One of the things I read is that when you go to get your results, if it's serious, there will be a Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist alongside the doctor. So the minute I was called in and saw that woman, I knew I was in trouble.
Despite the latter, a fatal combination of overconfidence (I am seized by the delusion that I am a born explorer) and poor map-reading causes us to set off in the opposite direction to that in which we should be heading.
I remember coming out of the room and having to take a few minutes to compose myself before I got a taxi prices Trikeri greece to take me home.' ‘It was a lot to take in. They were also going to have remove some lymph nodes,' she says.
The travel company Macs Adventure has arranged our trip (yes, I really did just type ‘adventure holidays' into a search engine), which includes transferring our luggage between hotels and providing us with route notes for each day's walk.
Blaming my inadequate footwear rather than lack of fitness, I struggle on — and soon the prospect of a lunch of Pelion sausage in peppers and aubergine and a Mythos beer has lubricated my joints. By this stage my blisters are less of a problem than the fact that my knees no longer seem to be functioning.
But there are compensations later. The beaches of Agios Ioannis are beautifully clear, fronted by a succession of tavernas.
Chris, desperate to check the financial markets (his mobile phone is a constant feature on our walks), is delighted by the hotel wi-fi, while I provide a bit of visual contrast on the beach — a pallid interloper surrounded by bronzed Greeks.
You may not be a tree person but I defy you not to be impressed by the giant plane tree in front of the church in Agia Paraskevi.
It is more than a thousand years old and about 58 ft in circumference, the sort of natural wonder that lends credence to the legend that Pelion was favoured by the gods.
‘Many years ago, Mick Jagger said to me: "Marie, unless you let go of a lot of these things you're looking for in a companion, and unless you allow yourself to judge less, then it's something that you will regret one day," and he was absolutely right.
The forest, taxi prices Trikeri greece descending from the terrace of the Hotel Manthos, spreads out like a green carpet to the sea, while swallows patrol the sky above. Narnia is the theme of our first stop: the village of Chania, near the top of Mount Pelion.
