Sick man’s new lease of life

Press, 20 September 1977, Page 10

Sick man’s new lease of life

PA Dunedin , I A man who was told he might die of cancer this I month says he has been i given a new lease of life. An old-age pensioner, Mr ' J. McCall, who has lung 1 cancer, has won a Pacific ‘ cruise for two in the Dunedin Y.W.C.A. mystery enve- 1 lope sale. The cruise is scheduled ;for February, but Mr I McCall’s doctor may advise i him to go sooner. Mr McCall and his wife i are not sure if the cancer is I malignant or benign. 1 “If the doctor says the I cancer is dormant, we will wait until February,” Mrs i McCall said. “But the organisers said we could go earl- i ier.” Mr and Mrs McCall, who live in a pensioner unit in a Dunedin suburb, North-East Valley, have never had anything like this happen to them before in their lives. “I bought only one ticket. I Getting a $2OOO cruise for ,

50c is pretty good,” Mi McCall said. He was told in June tha he might have only thre. months to live. “This cruise will certainlj do me the world of good,’ he said, "much better thar any hospital treatment. “I will have a new least of life.” The reputation of Dunedin’s hospitals is the reason Mr McCall came to Dunedin in 1965. “I had a spinal disorder, and so we came to Dunedin because we had heard I could get the best treatment here,” he said. The cruise ship Fairstar is the same in which the McCalls sailed from England to New Zealand. The organiser of the mystery envelope sale, Mr I. W. McMeeking, said he was pleased to see the cruise go to such a deserving couple. Almost 60,000 envelopes had been sold, he said — an excellent response from the public.