SOMETHING TO CHEER YOU UP
In England, when doctors told Jon Matthews he had mesothelioma, they warned him it was unlikely he would live to see Christmas.
The 58-year-old was determined to prove them wrong and placed a £100 ($200) bet that he would still be around in a year. The doctors simply told him that the longest anyone had survived was 25 months.
This is what he has said today:
"Today is 25 months and a week, so I've beaten that record. I do get bad days, obviously, but I'm feeling fine today. Everyone's feeling fine if they're going to pick up five grand."
When asked how he would spend his windfall, he said half the money would go to the British cancer charity, Macmillan, and, "The other half I'm going to spend on myself - booze and fags probably - I don't have anything to lose."
Oh, and just so as you don't get the wrong end of the stock - in England 'fags' means cigarettes!