I LOST a third of my right lung in September 2006 with lung cancer.

It came back two years later.

I stopped smoking in early 1970 so, until June 15, 2006, when I went to A&E and asked for a chest X-ray following a car smash they found my tumour. More than 30 years without a fag.

Now I have another fight.

I have three brain tumours and start radiotherapy for five days on Tuesday, April 19.

My days are now numbered.

I have had no treatment for the cancer in my two lungs for longer than 12 months.

It’s okay to use my body for cancer research but the price to me was too high.

I have paid with my life.

On April 8 I saw my cancer doctor and he gave me a 12-month driving ban.

My driving days are over as I sold my car and sent my licence back yesterday.

I’m now walking very slowly from where I live to the paper shop in Windrush Road.

But I can manage to weed kill the grass verges where I live and cut the grass, but I’ve got no car to take the mowings up the allotment to feed my compost heap.

What a shame.

I have just paid my first instalment on the Council Tax of £92.68. Now the council has got my money they can, with your help, cut all the hedges which are growing half-way across the pavement from Arrow News to home, because if I fall over I can’t get up.

And some people want to overtake me. Those who go to work.

MR PETER ROBERT WILLIAM ANDOW

Millbrook