Published: Thursday, 25th September, 2008 08:30
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DYING Dalgety Bay father Willie Logan has been making the most of the time he has left with his wife Karen and their six-year-old son Ewan.
The 44-year-old was dealt a tragic blow earlier this year when he was told that he had between 18 months and two years to live due to a terminal brain tumour.
The Press caught up with the avid Pars fan this week who has been busy holiday-ing in Alcudia, watching the Pars and attending organised events for charity Brain Tumour UK.
“I’m enjoying going to the Dunfermline games because I’m picking and choosing what games I’m going to. If they play on a Tuesday night my mate comes over to visit me and we hit golf balls and then go to the football at night.
Unfortunately I slept during the Dunfermline versus Alloa game! I sleep at anything, I can be watching Scotland and can go to sleep although these days it’s a bonus.
I’ve been to a few league games, I went to the Airdrie and the Livingston game. It’s nice to meet some of my older friends for a blether. Once I start to feel tired I just get up and go. I tire quite quickly because I play golf on a Tuesday.
Outside my wife and my son, my third most important thing is being a Pars fan. Ewan got his first ever Dunfermline strip put in a frame so it’s going up on the wall. He was only one or two when he got it.
I’ve been doing exercise too. For the first time since I had the operation and started the pills, I walked four miles round the Bay which took well over an hour – it used to take me 40 minutes! I was knackered.
“I’m still taking steroids. I get sore heads which is caused by pressure on the tumour. The steroids help to keep the pressure on the tumour down. I have to do this if I want to carry on living my life.
I went for a scan recently and got an injection and that was one of the sorest injections I have had, because my body will not be as fit as it was health-wise. The scan was just to see how things are going and how far on the tumour is. I will get this every four months now.
I don’t think they can do anything for the mental side of things. If my mind starts to go, there isn’t a great deal I can do.
I’m not worried about what people think I look like, I don’t care about anything like that anymore. I’m just enjoying myself with my wife and son – that’s what really matters to me.
I was speaking to a guy last week who I’ve known for years and he knew everything that was wrong with me. He just thought it was amazing that I don’t seem neither up nor down. Everybody reacts differently, the way I react is different to other people; it’s not me trying to be bumptious – it’s just the way I am. You just enjoy what you have got left in life and that’s what I have been doing.
We went to see the pirate show in Palma when we were on holiday in August – it was fantastic from start to finish. The men liked it because it had French can-can dancers and the women liked it because there were nice hunky men!
It was just a relaxing holiday to have fun. We went round Alcudia on the boat too. The highlight for my wee boy was going to the water park – he loved it. He found a friend from High Valleyfield when we were on holiday!
We’re going to Disneyland in Paris next month (October). I’m looking forward to that. That was the first holiday I wanted to book. I loved it last year; I just think it’s a fantastic place.
Once the weather starts to change one of my jobs is to start setting up photographs for the house. I have got the scanner and the photographs I want to use.
I have got to go through the dvds that we made on holiday and set them up with music in the background for a laugh.
What’s happened to me has brought all these great things back to me because I’m seeing old friends. Some of the things I have done this year have been fantastic. I really enjoy my life and I’m very very lucky. It doesn’t matter if it (dying) happens tomorrow or in a year’s time, it’s what I’m doing in between times – I’m having a really good time. I’m getting the chance to live some really good parts of my life so I’m very lucky.
There’s a dance at East End Park on 25th October to raise funds for Brain Tumour UK. There will be a disco and karaoke. That will be my last sort of thing – after that I’m just retiring! Robert Kirk is organising it, who I’ve known since I was born. He read about me in the Press and he came down to my house.
The lassie (Lorna Morton, 39, from Dunfermline) who organised the open mic day at the Elizabethan last month did really well. I think she raised about £1400-£1500 for the charity.
I really just want to say thank you to everyone.”
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