Dave Myers, star of Hairy Bikers, has described how difficult it was for him to return to work and ride his bike for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer.
Dave, 65, announced last year that he was being treated for cancer, joking that he would be a “baldy biker” for a while.
In following updates, he claimed to be “sort of doing well,” while treatment was still “ongoing,” and he greeted 2023 by claiming cancer was “something one learns to live with.”
Dave and his TV partner Si King are finally back on our screens with a new programme, but the transition back to flying across the country was difficult.
‘It’s been hard but I’m not the only one and I’m getting through it and I’m back at work,’ Dave began.
He continued to The Yorkshire Post: ‘I’ve had to learn to walk again and ride my bike again, and to get on my bike again with Kingy in the sunshine brought tears to both our eyes.’
Si added: ‘It’s been an emotional rollercoaster for everybody who loves and cares about Dave.’
This comes after Si described the ‘distressing’ and ‘tough’ period he went through after Dave informed him of his cancer diagnosis.
‘I was driving. I had to pull over,’ Si recalled, looking back at the ‘distressing’ call in March, last year.
Talking about how difficult the past year has been for them both amid Dave’s cancer battle, he continued: ‘It’s so distressing. It’s very difficult to verbalise.’
Si said to The Times: ‘There’s a sense of loss, but there’s also that sense of hope, you know, knowing my mate as I do.
‘He’s a scrapper. He’s a fighter. But there were certain points that I thought, “Where’s it going to go? What is happening to my friend?”‘
Dave, a Geordie motorcyclist and popular gourmet, shared details of his ‘brutal’ chemotherapy treatment earlier this year, revealing he’d lost’so much weight’ and suffered with losing his appetite and being able to manage only a can of soup.
He also said that he had to ‘learn to walk correctly again’ when chemotherapy damaged his balance, which he described as a “disaster for a biker.”
As Dave makes a “big stride back to normalcy,” the couple is returning to work and our screens with a new series.
The eight-part series The Hairy Bikers Go West will follow the duo as they enjoy the food and people of Britain’s west coast.
Source My Celebrity Life.
