What a Difference a Day Makes: 'There is life after pancreatic cancer — I’m proof of that'

Pancreatic cancer survivor Pamela Deasy tells Helen O’Callaghan about the moment she received her shattering diagnosis — how hope was all she had to cling to, how determination got her through. And the West Cork woman talks about how doing the Camino this year represents just one way in which she is now embracing life and all it has to offer

Pamela Deasy: 'Hope is a small word but it means so much. It’s all you have to cling to when you get the news, when undergoing treatment.' Picture Chani Anderson.

May 2018, this tiredness, fatigue. I put it down to being busy. I had no other consistent symptoms.

Everything came to a head one week in December. Sunday morning the itchiness started, in bed at night tearing the legs off myself. On the Thursday, jaundice, the GP thinking a blocked bile duct.