it's not over yet
later told me I had a tumour on my lung."
How did he cope finding out about all this?
"The diagnosis was a huge shock. I was in hospital most of the summer
and was only let out because my twin sister came over from Australia to
look after me.
"I've had four sessions of chemotherapy and each one has hit me harder.
After the last one I had bronchial pneumonia and they said I was lucky
to survive. I couldn't get out of bed in hospital for two weeks and was
on a heart monitor, oxygen, loads of drips and a catheter.
"I didn't know whether the chemotherapy was working, all I was told
was that the tumour wasn't getting any bigger. I decided with my doctors
to stop the chemo because it nearly killed me and it wasn't working."
Nick is back in his flat in south London. Are things more hopeful?
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"Now for the first time in months, I can enjoy eating again. Everything tasted the same when I was on chemo - awful, bitter, metallic and salty. The doctor said I could also stop taking the HIV drugs. 'The HIV is not going to kill you but the cancer will', he told me.
"In my file it says my case is terminal but I suppose that life is terminal for everyone. I try and be optimistic and positive but with each hurdle it becomes
