A woman with Stage 4 cancer is taking a unique twist on her chemotherapy as she travels around the country looking for locations to do "chemo in cool places".
Chrissie Jackson, from Stockton Heath in Warrington, has already been ‘arrested’ by police officers in a pre-arranged stunt and done chemo in a prison cell.
The 46-year-old, who went to school at Bridgewater High in Appleton, also visited the HMS Kent vessel as part of her groundbreaking mission, and took her tablets with boy band legends Take That.
Ex-Cheshire resident Chrissie, who now lives in Cornwall, believes there are almost no limits to where she will take her prescribed chemotherapy pills twice a day.
Her future ‘Chemo in Cool Places’ spots include the Eden Project Zip Wire and Centre Court at Wimbledon tennis club.
Chrissie was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer in January 2019 and has promised herself to make the most of every single day, along with making money for charities.
Having raced from Australia to China in the fifth leg of the Clipper Round the World Race last year, Chrissie was about to set sail to Seattle when she first became unwell and required immediate medical care.
She was then subsequently diagnosed in January this year.
Sailing has been – and remains – a big part of Chrissie’s life and one of her current goals is to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
Amongst the causes Chrissie is supporting are St Francis Dogs Home, Sally’s Cat Rescue, Newquay RNLI, Prickles and Paws - Hedgehog Rescue, Newquay Towan Blystra Lions and Bodmin Moorland Pony Rehabilitation.
Chrissie said: “From very early on after hearing the shocking news, I decided that this wasn’t something that was going to get me down.
"Having to take chemotherapy pills twice a day regardless, I thought, ‘why not make the best of it and take it in places where I normally wouldn’t have been?'
How many people can say that they’ve done chemo on a warship? Not many!”
“I feel like the last two years of my life has been helping me train for this journey without me even knowing it.
Both training for and participating in The Clipper Race gave me the confidence to push myself to my absolute limits and all the skills and life lessons are now being transferred into this new chapter of life.
"I’m certainly doing my very best to create lemonade out of the lemons life has given me.”
