Certainly Not a Celebrity

This heart-warming and inspiring story follows the journey of David a working-class lad from Lakemba who despite getting into mischief and facing life s many challenges emerged on the other side stronger than ever.From moments like coaching an under-nines soccer team alongside his manager Jack who told concerned parents If you have any complaints come to me not David. I ve had injuries to my spine and my surgeon warned me Operating on you could make you a quadriplegic David. Yet his prediction that the pain would ease every ten years has been spot on. Today it s nothing to dealing with setbacks like buying a courier run from Nu Way Transport Newcastle only to return from Christmas holidays to find the factory burned down by an arsonist David s life has been a rollercoaster.After starting his own courier business sometimes earning as little as five dollars a day and navigating the ups and downs of the Australian mining boom David spent 14 years travelling for months at a time before retiring at fifty-nine to Atlantis on the Gold Coast.However retirement brought a new challenge: bowel cancer. After being 21 months cancer-free the disease returned and spread to his lungs stage four. Yet through it all David s resilience has never wavered. This is more than just his story; it s an inspiration to cancer sufferers and a testament to the power of perseverance in the face of life s toughest battles.